Though It Tarry - Wait For It!

Habakkuk 2:2-3 states: “…Write the vision and make it plain upon tables that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

God called me out of a business career into the field of education during my mid-thirties. I never wanted to teach. I had planned on becoming a business executive. It was then that God showed me He had a different path for life. He opened miraculous doors for me to teach at a high school in the city where I had lived for fifteen years.

Though everything was going fine in my teaching career, I always questioned myself, “How did I get here?” One day while sitting on my patio, God clearly answered: “It was not by accident that you were not preparing for your future and ‘real life.’ I called you to be a teacher so that you can reach other little Rhondas who are just like you. It will be in the same place that you were in school.”

I immediately felt a sense of peace and self-confidence except for the part about being in the “same place that I had attended school.” I dismissed the possibility of moving back to my home town until several years later when drastic life changes gave me no choice but to return. Emotionally wounded and hurting, I spent the next year without work.

In search of a teaching position in 2007, I attended the school district’s spring Job Fair. I was glad to see a teacher that I knew. After a brief conversation about prayer for a job, she invited me to a bible study at their home. The Lord nudged me to go. On the next Tuesday evening I was welcomed by a unique group of people, under the Lord’s banner of OSL, who genuinely cared about me. I sat in the ‘hot seat’ as they anointed me with oil and prayed for me, encouraging me with the Father’s Love. Week by week, I felt secure with my new friends; my confessions safe-guarded. Throughout the summer months my physical and emotional pain lessened as I grew closer to Jesus.

With the fall semester soon to begin, I was still unemployed. It was then I remembered Habakkuk 2 and the vision God had given. I actually wrote it down and read it every morning. One week before school started, I began to get weary. As I watched a Christian program on TV, a man talked about a vision that God had given him. He stood on the ground that God had promised him and claimed his vision. I took action: The next morning, I drove to my former high school campus and stood on the front lawn, claiming my vision.

As teachers were reporting to their posts one week before the start of school, I got a call to meet with the principal of our middle school. I learned that the business teacher, who had just resigned, as well as the principal, had prayed for God’s favor in a quick replacement. Their prayers joined with those of my OSL. I was hired on the spot! Our middle school is the campus of my former high school. With ongoing healing and deliverance, I am energized by the Holy Spirit to step into my destiny of guiding all the little Rhondas. Though the vision tarry, wait on it, it will not be a moment late!

Rhonda Norman attends the Lufkin, Texas Order of St Luke.  This article was printed in “Sharing Magazine”, a publication of Order of St Luke the Physician International.