When the King gives you an opportunity, tools, training, and vision, there are some options in which you can engage with those things:
1) complain about what seems to be missing.
2) leave aside His input entirely.
3) continue with what you have in hand and ask His counsel along the way.
4) build something with those items.
5) consult your spirit about what he or she wants to do with those.
6) write out a plan.
7) brainstorm.
8 ) fly by the seat of your pants.
9) consult with your friends about the situation.
10) wait and discern the timing.
11) develop a strategy with the tools while we wait.
12) ponder waiting for further resources.
13) wait and rest while giving our whole person time to catch up to where the L-rd has placed us.
14) Reorient
15) Leverage what we have to something greater
A few days ago, I posted from The Paraclete’s Hammer, my website, a blog post on εκβάλλω, the Greek word employed by John Mark, who wrote the earliest Gospel.
It describes Yeshua getting thrown or driven into the wilderness by the Spirit, following His baptism and evoking the Father’s pleasure. It is possible, given Messiah’s full humanity, that He needed to take a moment and reorient Himself to His new surroundings.
And the same holds true for us. When we are disoriented, we need to take stock and assess. Maybe even develop a plan. And that’s not just a plan for in the wilderness with survival. It’s a longer-term plan for the seasons beyond the wilderness.
Sometimes, we turn waiting in a passive thing, which is fine if we need to rest and recoup and we are a touch disoriented about the plan going forward.
However, waiting can also be an active exercise, depending on the needs of the season.
Waiting can be a developing season.
Removal of junk, clarifying of perspective, removal of obstacles, distillation of identity.
So, if you are thrown, ponder what the King has for you.