So many times in life we want things "right now." It's tough to want something that seems to align with God's will, only to have to wait for it. I can better understand the practice of patience when the thing wanted might not be what's best for us. But, when I truly believe that my desire is what God's desire is or should be, it's hard for me to wait. I have come to the conclusion that we will never know why we need to wait on things to come to us, even when they are qualified as "good" in our own mind. I have also come to the conclusion that waiting on the Lord is highly rewarded. The older I get, the more I realize that waiting is the toughest thing in the world for me to do. Whether it's simply waiting in line at the grocery store at the checkout line as one person is working next to 11 other closed conveyer belt lines, or if it's waiting on a medical test to come back for a loved one--I don't like to wait on anything. I feel lately that God really wants to remove that ugly impatience from me.
Life is full of waiting. Waiting for the next earned construction job, waiting for the holidays to come, and waiting for my gas tank to fill up while late for work, and waiting for God to give me patience.
I pray that God will give us patience, and that He will bless us in His time for reasons we don't know. All I know for sure is that if every time I was granted my wants at that time, my life's joy would be a shadow of what it is today.
God is good, and when you don't even fully know it yet, He has answered our prayers.
CY
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