Day 19, “What Do I Do While I Wait?” is about how to keep moving forward when God has not yet shown you the whole plan. Using Psalm 43:3–4, the episode encourages listeners to seek God’s light and truth, especially when life feels dark, confusing, or uncertain. The episode reminds us that God often does not give us a floodlight showing the next five or ten years. Instead, He gives us enough light for the next step. Our job is to faithfully take the next right step, trust what He has already revealed through Scripture and His teachings, and remain where we are when He has not yet shown us a new direction. Waiting does not mean God has abandoned us; sometimes it simply means He has not asked us to move yet. The encouragement is to become more comfortable living with uncertainty while remaining confident that God is with us. We do not need to know every future step. We can follow the light we have today, trust that God will make the next step clear when the time comes, and keep walking with Him one step at a time. Music: "Adding the Sun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Hope in the Waiting - Day 19: What Do I Do While I Wait?
Psalm 43:3-4 “Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.”
I love the idea of the Lord leading us with His light and His truth. What I like most about it is that His light can cut through any darkness and His truth can cut through any lies, even the ones that we tell ourselves. These two things are so important for us to remember. We can start to feel as if our hole is so dark no light will ever get in. God’s light can always get in. We have to let it in, though. We can get in our own way sometimes. Picture yourself sitting in a room with the shades drawn and the lights off. You complain that it is so dark you can’t see anything, yet you don’t turn on the light or even open the shades. We do this to God too. We sit in our misery, and we don’t invite Him in. He is knocking at the door, but we are too sad, too upset, too angry, too whatever to open the door. We don’t let Him in, and then we ask Him where He is.
One way we might not be letting in His light is by not seeking Him. God can be found anywhere and everywhere if we are searching. If we are looking, we can learn to see His light all around us. However, if we aren’t looking, we won’t see it. No matter how bright His light is, if you don’t want to see it, you won’t. You will make every excuse in the book but you won’t recognize God’s light. The first thing we can do to let the Lord’s light into our lives is we can seek it.
The next thing we can do is to be around others that can help us see it. When we are upset, we tend to want to be either alone or surrounded by others who feel similar to us. We don’t want to watch happy movies or listen to uplifting music. We want to wallow in our feelings. This can be okay for a brief time. Sometimes we really need to let ourselves feel our feelings. However, we can't stay there. It should be more of a brief pit stop than an extended stay. After our brief pit stop, we need to be around others who can help us see the light. If we don’t have people like that in our immediate circle, we can use uplifting movies, TV shows, or music. Even being around people filled with the light of the Lord can help lift our mood. Sometimes they don’t even have to say anything. You know the person I am talking about. That friend of yours who brightens your whole day just by being with you. Maybe it’s your spouse, your parents, your sibling, your best friend- whoever it is. We should all have someone like that in our lives, and when we are in the dark, looking for the light, they are the ones to go to. Also, if you are not in the darkness right now, maybe you could be the light for someone. God wants us to share His light with everyone. Sometimes we need help seeing the light, and sometimes we are the ones to bring that light to others.
When we ask the Lord to send His light to lead us, we're sometimes disappointed with how He does it. When we ask Him to send His light, what we really mean is for Him to send a floodlight that will light our way for the next 5-10 years. We want to be able to see from where we are to where we are going. We want to see all the twists and turns. We want to see the finish line now so we know it is safe to follow that light. This is not how the Lord usually works. He usually sends His light as a candle or a flashlight. He lights up your next step or two, and then you are in the dark until you take that next step. He doesn’t want us to rely on what we can see. If we could see every step, every twist, every turn, then we wouldn’t be stepping out in faith. If we faithfully take that next right step that the Lord lit up for us, then He will light up the next step for us. Your steps might not be too close together either. You may spend some time waiting in between steps. This waiting can be hard because we don’t always know how long we will have to wait, and while we wait, we may not hear from God every day.
I saw a video on YouTube once with Father Mike Schmitz, and he said he is constantly asked, Today’s Word from the Lord was received in March 2026 by a member of my Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group. If you have any questions about the prayer group, these words, or how to join us for a meeting, please email CatholicCharismaticPrayerGroup@gmail.com. Today’s Word from the Lord is, “Seconds fall like pelting rain, but each drop is known to me. Remember, you are always with me.”
I will put a link to this video in the show notes because it was a quick 6-minute video, and yet he explains it so well. Basically, what Father Mike explained is that God shows us what He wants us to do one step at a time. Father Mike said we think we are seeking certainty or clarity, but what we are really wanting is God’s constant reassurance that we are going in the right direction. He said God will never ask you to make a decision about your vocation or what he’s calling you to based on what he hasn’t revealed to you. God has revealed to us the way God wants us to live, the commandments, the sacraments, the beatitudes.
In the verse above, it asks God to send out His light and His truth and to let them lead me. Father Mike is saying, God gave us His truth. We can let that lead us to where we are going and let that truth help us to take the next right step. If God is not lighting up your next step for you, that doesn’t mean He has abandoned you; it means he wants you to stay where you are until He gives you the next right step. Father Mike gives us an invitation in the video, and I want to pass that invitation on to you. His invitation for you today is “to be content and confident to live in uncertainty.” Or, put another way: “To live with a certainty that God has already given to you, to live with the clarity that he’s already spoken in.” You know what He wants you to do. Micah 6:8 says, “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” God has already told you what He wants you to do, and when He calls you to move forward, He will speak clearly, and that question will always be confirmed. This doesn’t mean He is going to tell you the next five steps, just that next step.
Father Mike talks about how when the Angel came to Mary to ask if she would be the mother of Jesus, she said, “Behold, I’m the handmaiden of the Lord. May it be done unto me according to your word.” The very next line says, “Then the angel departed from her.” Mary was asked to answer this one question: Will you be the Mother of God? Then the angel disappeared. God’s certainty isn’t telling us all the future steps; God’s certainty is “I will be with you.” Just stay on the path He has revealed to you until He asks you to turn. I know waiting can be uncomfortable, and the unknown is really hard sometimes. However, Father Mike is telling us that if you aren’t hearing anything from God on your next step, then He isn’t asking you to take one. If God is wanting you to pivot in direction or take a different turn in your life, He will reveal that to you. If not, keep heading in the same direction with the certainty that God is with you, and if He wanted you to do something different, He would let you know. I will leave you with Father Mike’s call to us. Can you be content and confident living in uncertainty? Can you live with the certainty God has already given you, and the clarity he’s already spoken in?
Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord, send us your light and your truth. Help us to follow them to wherever you want us to go. Lord, help us to be ok with not knowing all the steps. Help us to just take that next right step. Help us to be ok with following your light, even if it is one step at a time. Help us to live in your truth for the times when you just want us to keep going forward. We love you, Lord; we are so grateful for your light, especially in the dark times. We are grateful that your light and your truth break through any darkness and any lies that we find ourselves in. You are amazing, Lord, and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’ holy name. Amen!
Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you just as you are, and so do I! Have a blessed day!
Today’s Word from the Lord was received in March 2026 by a member of my Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group. If you have any questions about the prayer group, these words, or how to join us for a meeting, please email CatholicCharismaticPrayerGroup@gmail.com. Today’s Word from the Lord is, “Seconds fall like pelting rain, but each drop is known to me. Remember, you are always with me.”