Day 13- How God Uses Waiting - Part 4

In addition to using waiting to grow us in our relationship with Christ and to develop our character, God also uses waiting to give us the experiences to be able to help others that are going through the same thing.  As we go through our season of waiting we can come alongside others that are in similar situations and share each others burdens.  Sometimes going through a hard season doesn't feel as hard with the community of loving friends to help us through.  Even after we have come out the other side of our waiting season, we can still be an encouragement to others that are where we once were.  God designed us to be in community with each other and going through a similar experience as someone else helps us to develop a relationship built on common ground.  Sometimes when we go through something really difficult, and then turn around and helps someone else that is going through their own difficulty, it helps to give our difficult journey some meaning.  This can be reassuring to us, that it wasn't all for nothing.  God never wastes our pain.