We started a conversation last week about waiting. If you weren't with us, we've been talking about the fact that some of us have been waiting on something in life. Maybe something significant. You're in a season of waiting. You're not just, you just haven't been waiting for a few days. You're in a season of waiting. It may be a physical need or financial need or a relational need. It might be something you've been investing in for a long

time. You've been working towards. You've been dreaming of. You've been hoping for. And you're waiting.

And it's not come to fruition. It's not paid off. You might even be waiting on God. You might

be waiting on it specifically in answer to prayer. You're waiting for clarity or direction or

healing or for hope. And last week, one of the things we did is we talked about the fact that

there are some natural and normal responses. Psychologically, there are some primary

reactions that are triggered by seasons of waiting. First is discomfort. We all just felt

that just a second ago. And we feel discomfort. You feel this

an awkwardness sometimes. You feel disappointment. You feel frustration. You feel fatigue

when you're in a season of waiting. Oftentimes we feel powerless. We feel like there's nothing we can

do. Things are beyond our control. Some of us, we're in the season of waiting. we're talking more about this day. You feel stuck. You feel like, how do I get out of this? How do I get out of this sort of this cycle I'm in or in this situation that I'm in? You feel like there's nothing you can do to get out of the situation that you're in. Or uncertainty. You're not sure what's coming in the future and it creates a bit of

fear and anxiety inside of you and and this spikes our cortisol levels and all sorts of things

but these are the primary things that are triggered and seasons of waiting and what we're doing

is we're going to take them one at a time each week and we're talking about what's not just

what's beneath them we're going to talk about what's beneath them and how we cope with them. But the really thing we're looking, the thing we're really looking at is what's on the other side of that? What's on the other side of the season of waiting in the midst of feeling these things that might just be worth the weight. And last week we talked about discomfort. We started with this. And we talked about

the fact that there's lots of things that in the midst of waiting are uncomfortable. And it causes

us to want to escape. It wants us, we want to medicate. We want to get out of that uncomfortable

feeling of the waiting. We do things we wouldn't normally do. And we discovered specifically last

week, even though I ruined some of your favorite verses, we discovered that some of, that God does

some of his best and most important work in the seasons of waiting. And here's why. It's because you,

you, or more specifically, your future self is worth the weight.

And we discovered that in its proper context, what God's up to, the good that God's up to,

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