Dan Miller, author of 48 Days to the Work you Love, spoke in a recent podcast about how some Christians wait on the Lord. That can often become an excuse. The Bible does instruct us to wait on the Lord, but Dan presented a different definition for “waiting.” Waiting doesn’t mean that we should sit down and do nothing while we expect God to just do what we need or direct us in the way He wants us to go. It means waiting like a waiter in a restaurant. A waiter is serving other people, asking how they can help or what they can get for them.

If we are waiting on the Lord to lead us into His will for our lives, I believe that means following the path we feel is right and asking God to show us if it is not. He will close doors and open others when we ask Him to. He will lead us, but we need to do the moving.