When the Waiting is Long and the Answers Don’t Come: Trusting God in the In-Between
Let me ask you something I’ve been asking myself lately:
In what area of your life do you need to remind yourself that the Lord is enough today?
For me, right now, it’s in the waiting.
Not just any kind of waiting—the kind that feels heavy. The kind that stretches longer than you thought it would.
Waiting for a breakthrough I can’t force.
Waiting for answers that seem just out of reach.
Waiting for a sense of peace to settle the storm of thoughts in my heart.
And if I’m being honest, I don’t wait well.
My instinct in these in-between places is to do.
To try to solve it, fix it, control it, or at the very least distract myself from the ache of not knowing.
I fill the silence with striving—productivity, busywork, endless scrolling.
Anything but stillness.
Anything but surrender.
But then, somewhere in the middle of all that noise, I remember…
The Lord is enough.
Not when the answer finally arrives.
Not when the pain lifts.
Not when the pieces fall into place or the fog clears from the path.
No—He is enough today.
Right here. In the waiting.
In the ache.
In the uncertainty.
In the space between what I hope for and what is.
And that truth? It anchors me when everything else feels unsteady.
So I’m learning—sometimes painfully slowly, and often moment by moment—to lean into it.
To let go of the need to figure everything out.
To stop measuring my progress by how strong I feel.
And to rest in the truth that His strength is made perfect in my weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).
There’s something sacred in the surrender.
Not a giving up, but a giving over.
A quiet choice to trust that He sees more than I do.
That His timing is not late.
That even when I can’t trace His hand, I can trust His heart.
So if you find yourself in a waiting season too, I want to gently remind you:
You’re not alone.
And you don’t have to have it all figured out.
The Lord is enough—for this day, this moment, this breath.
Right here, in the not-yet.
And that… is enough.
