While You Wait

Finding Purpose in the “Not Yets”

By: Jerry Meek

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

What will you do in the waiting?

We’ve all found ourselves between where we are and where we want to be. That’s why the message of While You Wait is crucial—the decisions we make today will determine what kind of lives we live tomorrow. What matters to God is not just that we wait but how we wait.

Do we spend our time fearful and anxious, pursuing everything we think is urgent and nothing truly important? Or do we press into God, allow him to grow our character, and learn from whatever season of waiting we find ourselves in? What happens if we invite God to refine and prepare us as we experience his timing?

In While You Wait, Jerry Meek, the CEO and founder of Desert Star Construction and Glorious Reflections, helps us recognize that our obstacles in the waiting are opportunities: opportunities for a more significant victory, greater freedom, a higher purpose, and, ultimately, a more extraordinary relationship with God. Together we will focus on the magnitude of our God, not the size of our struggles.

©2022 Jerry Meek (P)2022 Jerry Meek

Critic reviews

“There’s no one better to help you discover ways to reflect the glory of God while you wait than Jerry Meek. Why? Because his life is truly dedicated to becoming a glorious reflection.” (Dr. John C. Maxwell, number one New York Times best-selling author, internationally recognized leadership expert, and speaker)

Waiting with Obedience

I’ve had the pleasure to get to know Jerry and his wife Carol over the past year as my wife Lauren and I were coincidencly placed at a table together at a Highlands College leadership dinner. We joke because it wasn’t random; it was a God thing. My wife had been working on her book and introduced Jerry to the publishing company where he used to write “While You Wait.” I, myself, had been in a season of waiting for the next step of my career, and he continues to help me through that threshold.

This book came out at a perfect time of my life, I am still waiting for my business to take off, and my patience has been running thin. I realized I haven’t been waiting with obedience, and I have been waiting for my next chapter on my time and not God’s. I must cherish each day and not wish it away to achieve a better tomorrow. We live in a world where everything is instant, and things still don’t come fast enough. After reading this book, I've decided I need to commit to living and cherishing one day at a time, constantly making the right decisions, and focus on others because you never know when you'll cross paths with a “Jerry Meek.”

Chapter 11, Burn your ships, really hit hard with me in the season of life I'm in. Completely burnt out in my career dealing with the general public daily, God continues to show me a business dealing with people in a higher capacity. Something that sounds so unappealing at the moment, but God continues to call me to it. The problem is, I haven't burnt my ships and completely committed, or I might have been further along in God's plan by now.

When you have the chance to meet a Jerry Meek in your life, fly across the country, spend time with them, and don't take the relationship for granted because crossing paths is a God thing.

A must read !

Really appreciate Jerry’s emphasis on the importance of reading God’s Word and living all of life according to its principles in business and personal life.