“There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill the void.”
– Oswald Chambers
I hate waiting. I try to be patient, but honestly, I am an impatient person. So often I get that little kid mentality of “I want this and I want it now!” As a Christian, I know that God’s ideas are often different from mine, and that it often involves waiting for something better. Sometimes I’ll think I know better and will try to rush ahead and force something that seems like it will work but in the end is not such a good idea.
I think I need to remind myself of some things that have been well worth the wait.
– Marriage. So worth the wait. Sure, I could have married at an earlier age, to the wrong person, and I wouldn’t be enjoying the marital bliss I am now. Waiting was definitely the way to go.
– A job offer right after college. I didn’t get that. I applied and looked and applied and just didn’t find anything. What I did stumble upon was an offer to travel with the African Children’s Choir, one of the best experiences of my life. A job offer could wait.
– Our house. We actually got this in a pretty short time, but it felt like forever. We had a couple different houses that we could have jumped on, but would not have been as good as the house we ended up with. When we wanted to just buy something already, we both realized we needed to wait just a little longer. So glad we did.
Waiting never seems so bad on the flip side. I need to remind myself of that when it starts to suck.
What are you waiting for these days?