Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. Isaiah 64:4
“His gift is very great indeed, but our capacity is too small and limited to receive it…The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger will be our capacity to receive this gift, which is very great indeed. No eye has seen it; it has no color. No ear has heard it; it has no sound. It has not entered man’s heart; man’s heart must enter into it.”
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) in Proba as recounted Milton Walsh in Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012) 175.
God is stretching me right now. Stretching me, growing my capacity to receive. Do you feel stretched some days? So what do we do? We wait for Him. If we need deeper faith, we need our capacity to grow. To grow it, we must wait on Him.
We must not ask God for what is on our heart, but enter His heart and wait for Him. This will deepen our faith and grow our hope.
I am being stretched right now. So, I resolve to wait for Him. To seek Him and His heart and trust Him to do more than I could ask or imagine. Only then will I be able to receive greater gifts and give them generously. Join me in waiting and stretching.
God help me wait patiently with unswerving faith and hope to welcome the stretching to grow my capacity to receive.