Don't check out until you call on Jesus, for they that wait on the Lord shall get new straight.

Dr. Tony Evans says when life gets harder, waiting on God often becomes the one thing we resist,

yet it may be exactly what he's teaching us to do.

Our God is able to meet you right where you are, even while you're waiting.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

When your heart or your spirit feel like they're breaking, what you want is relief, not patience.

But today, Dr. Evans explains that there's a point

behind the process you're in, even if it's painful. Let's turn to Isaiah 40, as Dr. Evans gets

us into our lesson for today. Isaiah is writing to his people who are tired of waiting.

Why do you say, verse 27, ask the question,

O Jacob, and assert, oh, Israel,

my way is hidden from the Lord, justice do me,

escapes the notice of my God,

or to put it in our everyday nomenclature, it's not fair. He raises the problem of my God or to put it in our everyday nomenclature it's not fair he raises

the problem of waiting the readers were discouraged and weary of waiting the

question was when is God gonna keep his word now this is not a bunch of atheists who are wondering,

does God exist?

They're raising a much more practical question.

Since God exists, why am I waiting?

And you know how it is when you wait and wait and wait.

Panic sets in. you always know when people are tired of

waiting they move from singing the gospel to singing the blues some folk when they get

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