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Trusting Through the Delay
Weekly Edition #73: June 17th, 2026
Verse I Like:
1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I take counsel in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the Lord,
because he has dealt bountifully with me.
Weekly Dose
I have been working this year on courage and taking courageous leaps in my life.
Courage is absolutely a virtue. It is better to be courageous than to not.
And sometimes the moment of courage is surrounded by hype and noise—tons of stimuli.
But rarely are we prepared for the silence that follows the courage. The moment after we have taken the step and the calm returns ahead of the result. That silence cuts like a knife.
Everybody encourages you at the very beginning (the courageous act) and at the very end (once you have made it), but between those two points is miles and miles of silence. Expanses of loneliness and discipline, a test of the will, and usually no one there when you need it most.
But this is where you earn the reward. This is where you build yourself into the man capable of the outcome.
Quotes I Like:
“People only root for others at two times: 1) When they're at the beginning of the race, and 2) when they finish.
Neither is when you need it.
So, you have to master the middle. The boring, exhausting, soul-crushing middle.
That's where the winning happens. On your own.”
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Mane Message
One of the things I love most about the Psalms is how honest they are.
Many of them are not written from mountaintops, but from valleys. They are not celebrations after the battle has been won, but prayers offered while the struggle is still ongoing.
David repeatedly cries out to God from places of confusion, fear, loneliness, and suffering. He does not hide his emotions or pretend everything is fine. He is honest with the Lord.
One of my favorite examples is Psalm 13, which begins with David asking:
"How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?"
Those are not the words of someone who has everything figured out. They are the words of a man waiting.
A man who knows God is faithful, but who cannot yet see what God is doing.
I think many of us find ourselves in similar seasons. We pray, we wait, and we wonder when circumstances will change. We ask God for guidance, healing, provision, or direction, and sometimes the answer seems delayed.
What makes Psalm 13 so powerful is not that David immediately receives what he wants. The situation does not suddenly resolve itself halfway through the chapter.
Instead, David makes a choice.
He ends the Psalm by saying:
"But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation."
The circumstances may not have changed, but his perspective has.
Faith is often less about understanding what God is doing and more about trusting Him while we wait.
The Psalms remind us that struggling is not the opposite of faith. In many cases, it is where faith is forged.
I do not think that God is not surprised by our questions, frustrations, or fears. It seems that He invites us to bring them to Him honestly, with humility and reverence, just as David did, continuing trusting while we wait for the answer.
Weekly Ponder
What does faith look like in the silence?
Could waiting itself be a part of the answer, and what we really need?
What kind of man would you be if you received everything immediately? Isn’t that how a toddler operates?
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