Pip: Nobody likes waiting — and yet here we are, at Victory Walk, where waiting turns out to be the whole curriculum.
Mara: Claudette Glaude-Scott has been writing about exactly that — patience, character, and what it looks like to hold on when God’s timing doesn’t match ours. Let’s start with what waiting actually costs, and what it builds.
Patience And Character
Pip: The posts in this segment are circling a real tension: we live in a world that rewards speed, and faith keeps asking us to slow down. What does waiting actually do to a person, and why does Scripture keep returning to it?
Mara: “Benefits of Waiting on the Lord” opens with that friction directly, and then anchors it in Isaiah 40:31 — “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
Pip: So the upshot is that waiting isn’t passive endurance — it’s the mechanism by which strength is actually restored. You don’t wait despite needing strength; you wait because that’s where the strength comes from.
Mara: And that reframes the whole problem. The post lines up several psalms to make the same point from different angles — Psalm 27 calls for courage in the waiting, Psalm 62 connects silence before God directly to salvation. It’s a cumulative argument, not just a list of verses.
Pip: Which is where “Wait with Patience” picks up. It introduces the vision angle — leaders talk about organizational vision, future goals, what they want to see — and then drops Habakkuk 2:3 right into that conversation.
Mara: The verse is pointed: “This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place.” The post’s phrase for our problem is the microwave mentality — we’ve been shaped to expect immediacy, and that shapes how we interpret delay.
Pip: Calling it a mentality rather than a habit is doing real work there. A mentality is a frame, not just a preference — harder to shake.
Mara: Paul’s line from Galatians 6:9 follows: “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” The emphasis lands on timing as God’s domain, not ours.
Pip: Then “Developing Patience” asks what character actually looks like on the other side of that waiting — and it opens with Billy Graham: “Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people.”
Mara: The post builds that out through Colossians 3:12 — clothing yourself with mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience as a deliberate daily act. And Proverbs 14:29 connects patience to understanding: a slow temper is a sign of overflow, not suppression.
Pip: Patience as character, not just coping strategy. That’s a different ask entirely.
Mara: The thread running through all three is that waiting isn’t the gap before something happens — it’s where formation actually occurs.
Pip: Strength renewed, vision held, character shaped — all of it requiring the one thing nobody wants to practice.
Mara: Next time, we’ll see what else Victory Walk is working through. Worth coming back for.
