waiting

I have been waiting for a lot lately. Nothing earth shattering; just waiting. The worst waiting this week is a couple of trips to the automotive repair place for the air conditioning on the youth van at church. Not quite done, yet, and It’s hot outside.

At least you can listen to the radio to take your mind off the heat.

“It’s getting hot in here, so take off…” Hold on there! This is a church van! Only music in the key of “C” allowed.

Contemporary Christian
Country
Classic

Yah right…

But most waiting is nothing. The worst waiting is like when Kristina had “suspicious” moles a couple of years ago. They were “pre-cancerous” and burned off and she was fine, but the waiting on the test results for that was hard core. Some of you have been there in a major way about yourself or a loved one.

I don’t know if waiting for the small things builds you up for the larger, but I would hazard to guess that the whole “seed planting” metaphors in the Bible are there to teach us patience. Most of our life we sit around and wait. Even for good things. Life experience teaches us this. We come into situations (or, at times, God puts us into situations) where patience is required. If it doesn’t come from God, God will use it to make us patient. It is almost like he is saying,

“If you have to wait it gives you the opportunity to think more on me. If you are busy all the time and everything is going your way that is not going to necessarily help our relationship."