Patiently Waiting

Doesn’t it seem like we are always waiting for something? As children, we would wait each day for our dad to come home from work. We would count the days until Christmas morning, or even our next birthday.  We couldn’t wait until the school year ended for that summer vacation, and finally for graduation day. I’m sure that every groom would be waiting for his bride to appear on a very special day. Then we would wait for that special delivery as our children came into the world, one by one. For me, my wife spent years waiting for me to come home from work, or from playing a band gig. Silently, and faithfully she patiently waited and all would be right with our world when we could hold each other. These days, we now wait for doctor appointments, long distant phone calls from our children, and for Sunday church service, all with anticipation of good news.

As I thought about this, I also realized that we as people, especially these days, are very impatient. We dislike traffic lights, grocery lines, debit machines and it seems, any response to posts on social media. We are so conditioned to expect immediate fulfillment that we forget that the clock ticks at the same speed as it did two thousand years ago. We cannot make the world or our situations turn any faster than it will. The speed of everything we do, or accomplish, seems to depend on someone else. We are definitely in a time where the patience of Job, is not in our equation.

I thought about just how patient God must be. He is now sitting, watching as the world He created runs amok. Yet He patiently waits. The paradise He gave us is populated with people who seem to choose hate and separation, over love and unity. Yet He patiently waits. He has gifted us with freedom of choice, to accept Him, or reject Him. He has so much faith in humankind that He has allowed Satan to remain to tempt us. Yet He patiently waits. He even sent His Son, Jesus to live and die among us, promising us eternal life with Him, in return for simply believing, as in John 3:16.

With all of this in our history, and in our future, we should seriously be asking ourselves this question. What am I waiting for? Today is the day we should tell God that we’re ready to be with Him for ever. After all, He has been patiently waiting your entire life until now to hear those words from your heart.

Mike Shindruk

www.mastershandministry.blogspot.ca