Thursday, July 01, 2004
WAITING
Throughout the Bible we are told to “wait on the Lord”.
“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” (Psalm 27:14)
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 41:31)
There are a lot of Scriptures that say basically this same thing –wait on the Lord!
We are told to wait for Jesus’ Return. (1 Thessalonians 1:10)
We Americans are always waiting. We wait in the Dentist or Doctor’s office.
Husbands wait for the wife to get ready to go somewhere. Wives wait for husbands to finally ask directions.
We wait in line for the traffic light to turn green. Or we wait for the traffic jam to clear so we can proceed. We wait our turn in line in the “cone zones” for the road construction traffic director to tell us it is our turn to go.
We wait in line at McDonalds’s, Wendys or Burger King. We wait in line at Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Department Store checkout lanes. We wait at the airport ticket counter.
We American don’t like to wait. So we resort to E-Bay or on-line shopping and the electronic airline ticket. But then we still have to wait for our order to be shipped to us. And there is no way to avoid the lines and the wait at the airport security checks.
We wait for the Lab or the medical test results to come back to determine the cause of our pain and other symptoms.
Students wait to learn if they have passed the test or the course or if they will graduate.
Then they wait after the interview process to learn if they got the hoped-for job.
Waiting is not something most of us do well. Yet God tells us to wait on Him.
Karon and I are in a “wait mode” right now. We are waiting to see if the broken bone is going to heal. We wait to see if the cancer treatment is putting the cancer into remission. We wait to see if the twice-daily home therapy and the twice-a-week outpatient therapy is having the desired effect.
We don’t like to wait. But it is often God’s Will that we wait. Why? There are a lot of reasons that would be interesting speculation. But the bottom line is that God has us wait. And while we wait we are to learn. We are expected to learn things God wants to teach us through the waiting process. We don’t always learn these things, but God would like us to learn. Then maybe we wouldn’t have to wait so much or so long!
Life on this earth is God’s Waiting Room. We are waiting to enter His Heaven. And while we wait He wants us to learn.
So Karon and I are waiting. Are we learning? Sheesh! I don’t know! It is like when I was in College. Did I learn? Often I didn’t think so at the time. A lot of the stuff I studied seemed like a big waste of my time and effort. But later, out in the “real world” what I had done in College had relevance! And I realized I HAD learned.
Maybe it will be like that regarding this current waiting period. I just don’t know.
Jim
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