Uncomfortable Waiting

Send us your questions and reflections!In Day 6 of our Advent series, we enter one of Scripture’s most emotionally charged moments: Abraham on Mount Moriah with Isaac. This passage in Genesis 22 confronts us with a difficult but essential truth—sometimes waiting well means waiting in the uncomfortable.Abraham’s journey is filled with love, confusion, and pain. God asks him to offer Isaac, the son of promise, the child on whom the entire future depends. Abraham obeys, and then he waits. He waits through a three-day journey of aching questions. He waits as Isaac asks, “Where is the lamb?” He waits as he builds the altar and lifts the knife. It is waiting that costs him something.Yet this uncomfortable waiting becomes the place where God reveals His faithfulness. Abraham discovers that he can trust God’s character even when he cannot see God’s plan.Through this story, Advent directs our eyes to Jesus. Isaac carries the wood up the hill; Jesus carries the cross. God provides a substitute for Isaac; God provides His own Son for us. What Abraham was spared from, God Himself endured. Jesus is the true Lamb of God, the fulfillment of Abraham’s story, and the One who meets us in every painful and uncertain season.Today's episode includes a symbolic practice: taking a short uphill walk as a reminder that God often shapes us most deeply when the path grows steep. In every uncomfortable step, we are invited to pray, “Lord, I trust You even in the uncomfortable.”