Our days and lives are filled with waiting. For good, for bad, for new, for people, for change. (For pandemics to end!) Waiting is a God-designed practice.
However, as the worn, torn magazines in waiting rooms around the world can attest, patience in the waiting isn’t a natural virtue.
Waiting makes some of us crazy.
In fact, I’m pretty sure if God wanted to test us before we entered heaven to see how much we learned on earth, my exam would be “Sit right here. He’ll call you when He’s ready.”
I’d be pacing the clouds, trying to get through to the Lord via the prayer line: “Hello God. You brought me here. This is the appointment you set. How is it you are not on time?!”
What maddens me most about waiting is the helpless feeling of having no control over what’s going on. Waiting seems passive, and I am not passive.
Truthfully though, waiting isn’t a passive process.
Much like active listening, active waiting is a participatory activity…
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Very true. The hardest thing a person can ever do is wait. Those who say otherwise are trying to sell you something.
God makes us lie down in green pastures to wait. That waiting will bring our ‘self’ nature out because it is the opposite of patience. When we wait we are deliberately learning to trust in God and His timing. Nothing has been more difficult in our journey than learning to wait for God and His perfect timing.
Good word.