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When the Weight Feels like Too Much
The raw honest truth about waiting.
Jennifer Paulino
May 12, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
This Week’s Form Check FocusRun From TemptationDuring your waiting season, it’s really easy to get caught up in the temptations of distractions. It’s easy to fall into the lies of the enemy and settle for the things you know aren’t for you… simple because it feels safe. It feels known. It feels… Much of the waiting season is about silencing the feelings and turning up the volume on the unknown. How to do that my friends… well we are figuring out together. |  |
Ecclesiastes 1:18
“For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.”
The Briefing
The Raw Honest Truth
As I prepared for this week’s Form Check, I truthfully didn’t have it in me. These last few weeks have been where my faith has been tested in such a way that many days I feel like I’m going insane.
Some days I wonder if this is how Elijah ended up in the cave or Jonah in the belly of the fish?
Walking with God can be overwhelming and many times leave you questioning things that most of us want immediate answers to. That’s not how it works… hence the consistent Wait.
Today isn’t about pretending.
Today is about sitting in the tension of knowing God’s promise is real, but feeling like your strength is failing in the wait.
Anxiety. Anger. Disappointment. Loneliness.
You’re not alone in this. And you’re not wrong for feeling it.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 reminds us that the more we see, the more we understand, the heavier life can feel. With wisdom comes clarity. With clarity comes sorrow. But it’s not the sorrow of despair — it’s the sorrow of recognizing how broken the world is, and yet still holding on to hope that God’s order and promises will prevail.
You’re not confused because God failed. You’re overwhelmed because you care deeply about walking in His will.
That’s not failure. That’s spiritual growing pains.
Breathe, Don’t Preform
This week, the “Form Check” isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about breathing.
About acknowledging the ache while refusing to let it turn you away from His face.
Even in this fog, remember:
God is still with you (Deuteronomy 31:8)
His promises are not on your timeline, but they are on His (Habakkuk 2:3)
Faith isn’t a feeling — it’s a choice to stay in the room with Him, even when you're frustrated (Psalm 34:18)
The weight of the wait, it’s not designed to crush you but build you!
TODAY’S FORM CHECK
Training Lesson: What does staying with God look like for you today — not in theory, but in practice?____________________________________________
Feeling the Weight Yet? Here’s our encouragement:
When we come to Christ we have a burden that should be carried with the utmost elegance and grace. It’s not a burden to be carried alone but rather with a community of responsible believers.
If you’re locking in, bring someone with you!
Forward this. Share the link. Invite them into the tension—into the place where waiting for God becomes training with Him. We don’t carry light, but we carry well. Let’s build this together.
You’re not broken. You’re not too late. You’re being conditioned by the call.
And weight? That’s just a setup for strength.
Spiritual Supplements
Conditioning Recommendations
▶ Worship Song: Breathe by Maverick City Music
▶ Sermon of the Week: Is This God, or Is This Me? Jerry Flowers
▶ Current read: The Power of the Other by Henry Cloud
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