Right now, most packages are no longer in our hands.
Except for express overnight, they are entrusted to delivery drivers, moving steadily toward their destinations. The rush is over. The labels are printed. The Q4 push has ended.

For resellers, creators, and small business owners, this moment always feels strange. After weeks of urgency, strategy, and stamina, we arrive at a quieter space. A season of waiting. Waiting for sales to finalize, for returns to settle, for the calendar to turn.

But as Christmas approaches, we are invited into a much deeper kind of waiting.

Not the anxious kind driven by tracking numbers and timelines, but the holy kind. The kind that shapes the heart.

Waiting Is Woven Into the Story of God

The coming of Jesus Christ did not happen in a rush.
The world waited thousands of years for the Messiah.

From Adam to Abraham, there was waiting.
From Abraham to Moses, waiting again.
From Moses to the prophets, still more waiting.

And then came one of the most challenging stretches of all, the 400 “silent years” between Malachi and John the Baptist. No new prophets. No fresh words. Just Scripture, prayer, obedience, and hope. God was not absent, but He was quiet. Preparing hearts, nations, and circumstances for what Scripture calls the fullness of time.

Waiting was not wasted time. It was a formative time.

Personal Waiting Carries Sacred Weight

Waiting is never abstract. It is deeply personal.

I remember waiting for my miracle son to be born.
The long years of infertility carried fear, frustration, and whispered prayers that no one else could hear. Waiting stretched my faith in ways I never expected.

My daughter waited for love, and this week she became a mother for the first time. She told me that she stared at her newborn with awe, the same kind of wonder Mary and Joseph must have felt as they looked at Jesus. Holding a promise fulfilled while still not fully understanding all that God would do through that tiny life.

My older brother waited fifteen years to find love while choosing obedience to God during that time. Trusting that delay did not mean denial.

Others are waiting right now for medical answers, for healing, for more time with someone they love, praying for miracles that can only come from God’s hand.

Waiting shows us what we truly believe about God’s sovereignty.

Why God Allows Waiting

Waiting teaches us that control was never ours to begin with.
It humbles us. It refines us. It reveals where we place our trust.

God allowed centuries of waiting before Christ’s birth so prophecy could be fulfilled, hearts could be prepared, and the world could be positioned to receive the Gospel. 

The silence was not empty. It was intentional.

The same is true for us.

Waiting is not a pause in God’s plan. It is often the place where His work goes deepest.

How to Live Well in a Season of Waiting

If you find yourself waiting this Christmas season, do not rush through it or numb it away. Instead, let it shape you.

Use this season to pray, not just for answers, but for alignment.
Read Scripture slowly and sit with it.
Study not to check a box, but to know God more deeply.
Enjoy the company of others without agendas or expectations.
Offer hospitality, even in small, quiet ways.
Get to know people for who they are, not for what they can offer you.
Ask the Lord for wisdom and patience, and trust that He gives generously.

Waiting invites us to slow down, to listen, and to remember that God’s timing is never late, even when it feels slow.

The Gift Hidden in Waiting

The world waited for the Messiah, and when He came, He arrived quietly, not in a palace, but in a stable. Not announced with power, but with humility.

That is the lesson waiting teaches us the most.

God often does His most remarkable work in silence, in obscurity, and in seasons where all we can do is trust.

As this year comes to a close and a new one approaches, may we learn to wait well. Not with clenched fists, but with open hands. Not with fear, but with faith. Knowing that what God is preparing is always worth the wait.