Day 12- How God Uses Waiting - part 3

God uses the difficulty of waiting to teach us to to lean into Christ and experience intimacy with Him, as well as learn that we can depend on Him.  God also uses waiting to shape our character.  While we wait, we change.  We can allow waiting to make us grow bitter and angry, or we can change for the better.  We can continue to grow in our relationship with Christ and continue to trust in His plan.  Waiting is certainly a test of faith, and James says that the testing of our faith produces steadfastness which, when it has its full effect, will make us perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.  (James 1: 3&4)  God uses waiting to refine us.  Job 23:10 says "But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold." As we go through the difficulty of not knowing if and when we will ever get to the other side of waiting, we can develop strength of character and perseverance.