Is There Any Good Reason To Wait?

We are not pleased when we have to wait for anything.  In fact, we totally dislike waiting.  We hate traffic congestion, line-ups for various services, being put on a wait list for housing etc.  Who of us likes to sit in the doctor’s office waiting to be seen? We’d much rather have the instant access to information and service we can get on the internet or from social media.  What do we do with the many times the Bible tells us we are to be patient and wait on the Lord?  Is there any good reason for us to do that?

When we first come to believe in God, all of us are impatient for what we want Him to do for us. Like the good Father He is, God is very gracious and often responds quickly to His newborn children, but there comes a time when He will teach us to wait. Learning to wait for what we want is one way to leave certain character defects behind and to grow into being a mature person.  

We are not good at waiting for God to act.  Like a good Father, God will not always give us the answer we want to our prayers at the time we want it, but will answer what we have asked for at just the right time.  Sometimes when we encounter traffic congestion we try to avoid waiting and seek another route only to find that others have done the same thing and we end up in a bottleneck that is even longer than where we first were. When we fail to wait for God to act and seek an alternate way, just like in our impatience with traffic congestion, we often end up in a worse mess.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Help me to be willing to wait when You are silent and choose instead to have faith that You are still at work on my behalf.  Amen 

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