SOCIALS: SHARING IS CARING
When everything breaks
Learn to wait on God
In the previous study, we looked at discomfort, and how it isn’t always something to pray away. This is especially true when God is using it to produce something deeper. But what happens when you’re the one in it? Things begin to fall apart… identity dissolves… when the foundation you stood on begins to crack?
It’s easy to feel disoriented when the structure you relied on no longer holds. And whatever lies ahead isn’t fully clear. There’s a space in between who you were, but it’s not yet fully established in what God is leading you toward. This is the season of wait.
Rock bottom or foundation?
At first, it feels like collapse, but there’s a clarity hidden in that discomfort. And when everything unstable falls away, what remains becomes very clear. You may feel like you’ve hit rock bottom but, if Christ is there, then you haven’t lost your foundation. You found it.
“He only is my rock and my salvation” Psalm 62:2
Stillness is not inactivity
Stillness is difficult because it feels like nothing is happening. But stillness is not inactivity, it’ i’s restraint. It’ i’s choosing not to move ahead of God, and refusing to fill the silence with your own direction. Because, truly, there is movement in stillness, but it’s internal. What God is doing in you often comes before what He does through you.
“Be still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10
After the breaking, there is often a wilderness. Not a place of abandonment, but a place of alignment. Strength doesn’t come before the waiting–it follows it. And the confidence of Isaiah 30:15 is telling: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” If you look into the root word of “confidence” here, it points to the covenant-keeping character of God.
Even in personal crisis, we have an unbreakable confidence because of who He is. And, thankfully, this confidence is not rooted in the situation. But in the very nature of God. The fact that He does not change. So even when everything around you shifts, your confidence has somewhere to remain.
Direction in the waiting
There are two forms of direction given: scripture (external) and Spirit (internal). While scripture remains fixed, the spirit leaves but never contradicts the Word. It’s important to be in tune with our Shepherd in the waiting, because we can’t follow every voice.
“The sheep follow Him, for they know His voice” John 10:4
“Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits” 1 John 4:1
“Test all things; hold fast what is good” 1 Thessalonians 5:21
No, waiting requires discernment. Because what often arises in silence is not always truth—it can be impulse, emotion, or urgency. We cannot rely on our feelings to follow the voice of God. And while it’s easy to doubt the wait or direction, there are also moments in scripture where urgency is required. But there are just as many—if not more—where patience is. And often, delay is not God’s doing—but man stepping ahead of Him.
Jonah fled. Others moved too soon. You cannot force God’s hand.
“My covenant I will not break” Psalm 89:34 (Lamentations 3:23)
Closing thought
Waiting is not passive, but alignment (Psalm 62:1). And this kind of waiting is quiet… steady. Time does not affect God the way it affects us, and what feels delayed to you is not delayed to Him. In recalibrating your life to Him, waiting becomes more than something you endure. Waiting is not where your life pauses, it’s where your foundations are set.
