Waiting for God's Promises

I've had a hard time lately because I feel like God has spoken so many promises to me and to my family, but none of them are coming true right now. I love it when I see God doing what He said, and I can handle it if God shows me that He wants me to work on a particular aspect of my walk before He moves. In either case, I have confidence that He's going to move. But waiting with no apparent reason is a little tougher. In fact, it freaks me out! But I finally figured out why. It's the fear that God's not going to come through - that my faith was in vain. I can accept that I was wrong sometimes, but when day after day nothing ever happens, I begin to doubt that anything ever will.
I've been thinking of David a lot lately. I've sympathized with him because he had to spend time hiding in caves just because some insecure king was jealous of him. Now I've been sympathizing with him because he had to wait twenty years to see a promise fulfilled. What doubts must have clouded David's mind during that time! He must have wondered if Samuel was wrong. Maybe sometimes he wondered if he did something wrong and blew it. Perhaps he just lived with the fear that he would be a laughingstock to all who know he had been anointed if God didn't come through. But from reading the Psalms, I can see that David must have come to the same conclusion God recently brought me to.
If I'm focusing on the promises, I'm focusing on what God will do. I'm not focusing on who God IS. And He IS here with me right now. That's one promise I don't have to wait for - He will never leave me or forsake me. He has me in His arms and will never let me go. If I focus on what God does, I will never be satisfied, because I will never be able to understand His ways. But if I focus on who He is, I have everything I will ever need or want... right now!