Waiting On The Lord

One of the problems with modern Americans is that we can be patient in anything except waiting.  We want results yesterday if not eariler.  We want it now or sooner, anything except later.  We have instant coffee, microwave popcorn and America's favorite - buy now pay later credit (paying later is the only thing we have patience for).

When we face problems or dilemas, we feel just the same.  We want them resolved right now or sometime before that.  We certainly don't want to wait for God to work them out.  Impatiently, we rush in trying to save the day ourselves so we can insure fast results.  The problems, besides a failure to trust in God's provision, is that we tend to make things worse in the process.  It's kind of like that knot in the string you kept trying to get out until you made such a mess that your mom had to cut it out.  Had you brought it earlier, it wouldn't have required such a drastic cure.

Although I begin every day in prayer and pray throughout the day, I still wrestle with and give in to that desire to rush in and save the day.  Knowing better doesn't always prevent me from doing better.  But, when I'm thinking right, I pray more and act less, waiting on God to show up.  By the way, He often passes on coming early but never shows up too late.  God is always on time, but his time is different than ours - but his time is always right.

My desire is to reach the point where I learn to always "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord" (Ps 27:14).  But like the David who penned that passage, I find myself struggling with my faith, down in my spirit, fearful instead of faithful at times.  It is the human condition, but it need not define us.  Like King David, who vacilated from high praise to depressed laments in the Psalms but was "a man after God's own heart" (Acts 13:22), my aim is to lean on God more and self less.  Jus' Sayn.