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Monday, June 24, 2013

Waiting Game

In a world where nearly everything is available instantly, 'waiting' is becoming harder and harder. Be it waiting at the clinic, or waiting for someone to turn up at an appointment, or waiting for a table at a restaurant, we all hate waiting.  Well, I know I do.

But the Bible teaches us that there's a time for everything:

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV
God has made everything beautiful in its time.

Everything that is good for us requires a bit of (or sometimes a lot of) waiting, and most importantly... patience and faith. 

Abraham had to wait for nearly a hundred years before he finally received his first descendant, Isaac.  That's a very long wait for someone whose promised descendants as many as the stars in the sky. 

Moses had to wait in the desert for forty years before he was able to do what he wanted to do when he was still young and strong, free his people from slavery. 

Joseph had to go through numerous tragedies in his life before he finally saw his dream came true. The dream God gave him when he was a young boy that could've easily been forgotten due to various circumstances that were exactly the opposite.

Right now I'm in a waiting season. Luckily it's not gonna be for fourty or a hundred years, and it won't involve slavery or jail (well... just a tiny bit - pretty much having to stay home everyday until then), but I'm already finding it hard!

Being so used to my independence & active lifestyle, I find it hard to sort of just sit around and wait. Even if I want to do things, I am just physically incapable right now. Even if I could, I know that I shouldn't. All I can do right now is eat, sleep and watch TV. It might sound good to some people, but trust me, it gets pretty boring after a week or so.
Plus all the pain, the soreness, the aches and the emotional roller coaster which come with being 38 weeks pregnant, right now all I want is for bub to just pop out. "Tonight would be good, honey! Com' on now you've been in there long enough."

Unfortunately (for me) it doesn't quite work out that way.  God said there's a time for everything, and He makes everything beautiful in its own time. Just like you can't force a butterfly out of its cocoon, you can't force a baby to come out early. Well, you can nowadays with medical intervention,  but you know... naturally you can't. 

So it's time to practice my patience now.
It's time to just allow nature to take its course.
It's time to let God, the mighty Creator, does His thing, perfecting the baby for his readiness to see the world and breathe this air.
It's time for me to maybe get some useful reading done, have more quiet time, do more devotionals.
It's time to maybe just 'chill' more in His presence, in the quietness and emptiness of the house. 

Whatever I do, I need to wait patiently now, and I need to learn to use these waiting time wisely and completely trust that His timing is the perfect timing.....

So if you're like me, waiting for something good to happen, whatever it may be, just trust Him.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11 NIV

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:   He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

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