No One Is Coming

After the fights, the blood, the curses, and my father now snoring, my mother, eyes already swollen from the beating yet so disciplined, woke up at 2 a.m. She sat at the sewing machine, the hum of the machine filling the still night air before she prepared herself to go to work at a local school, where she was a Home Economics teacher. The pain was real, the struggle was real, but she did not sit around waiting for someone to fix it. No, she did not wait for someone to come and rescue her. She knew one thing: she was the one she had been waiting for.

Now, we have all been there, right? We have all been in those moments where we have prayed for someone to come in and fix everything. We look to the left, we look to the right, and we wait for the right person, the right sign, and the right moment. The truth hits hard: no one is coming. Not the way you think and many times, not in the way you have been hoping.

You see, we have been waiting for someone to do what the Lord has already equipped us to do. We have been waiting for a miracle to show up, and God is saying, “I have already given you everything you need. The power, the strength, the transformation, it is already in you.” You have been waiting for someone to swoop in and save the day: the day is yours to save.

In Isaiah 41:10, God tells us, “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” What is God saying here? He is not telling you to sit still and wait for your breakthrough to fall from the sky. No, He is telling you that He is with you, He is strengthening you, and He is empowering you to rise up and walk in your victory. You have got to move. You have got to rise.

Too often, we simplify the work of the Cross. We downplay the sacrifice, minimize His blood, and yet the covenant, the powerful covenant promises victory, power, and transformation and holds far more significance than we often recognize. Jesus did not die and rise just to make life easier. He died and rose to make you stronger, to empower you, to equip you to stand firm, fight, and overcome. As He said in John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” He did not just endure suffering for our sake, He rose again, victorious, so that we too can rise, victorious over any trial we face. You are not waiting for someone else’s strength to carry you through. The strength to endure, to rise, to conquer is already in you.

In Proverbs 31, we read about the virtuous woman who is strong, wise, and diligent. She does not wait for someone to take care of things; she does it herself. She does not look for a savior; she steps up and becomes the solution. That is the kind of faith we need. You have got to believe that you are the one who has been called to break through. Not because you have all the answers, but because the Spirit of God is with you, empowering you, strengthening you, enabling you to do the impossible. In Romans 8:11, it says, “The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.” Think about that for a moment. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. You are not powerless. You are not weak. You are not stuck. The power to rise up and break free is already within you. It is not something you are waiting for, it is something you are activating.

Now, I want you to hear this: After the tears fall, and your eyes swell, cry again… cry even harder. Let the pain out. Let the sorrow pour and when your eyes are so swollen that you cannot see, when the tears have dried up and you feel like the world has stopped, remember this: no one is coming. The change you have been waiting for? It is already in you. The solution you have been searching for? It is already within you. The power to transform your situation, to change the narrative, to rise from the ashes, is already in your hands. It is not because of your own strength, but because the Spirit of the Most High is living in you, working through you.

As I bring it home, for the past month, this is the message the Holy Spirit has been whispering to my heart: No one is coming.

After I was done crying, I remembered my late mother, the broken nose, the scar, the pain she endured. Yet, when the alarm sounded, she rose. She kept going. She did not wait for rescue; she became her own answer. And now, among the great cloud of witnesses, she is cheering me on, reminding me that I, too, must rise because no one is coming. The strength, the breakthrough, the change, it is already in me. It is already in you. We move. We rise. We become.