Waiting

Our lives often feel like a rush.  We have more things to do and less time to do them.  How many times do we get impatient?  Impatient with others to be there when we expect them, for the train to arrive on time, in the airport - hurry up through airport security.  And then we all have times of impatience with the Lord, wishing that he would operate within our time frame, and following our timetable and we get anxious waiting for His response.

We ask, and He keeps His promises in His time.  We beg, but He keeps silent.  We get tired and desperate.  We feel as though everything is out of our control, but He stays strong, loving and in control.

What would have happened if Noah had enough of waiting for the rain to come.  Imagine how he might have felt after waiting 50 years of building the ark and no one had seen even a drop of rain.  People surrounded him, mocking him and God who had given him no sign of the impending flood.

What if Noah had said, “I’ve had enough of this!  If You don’t bring rain right now and prove these mockers are wrong, I’m going to quit!”  What then?  God would still have brought His plan to pass in due time and Noah would have been unprepared.

There was a time when people waited for more than rain.  People had been waiting for the Messiah for thousands of years.  Paul writes, “But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeems those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” (Gal 4:4-5).  God fulfilled his promise at just the right time—not a moment too soon or too late.

And he continues to be the same.  Though we scuttle here and there with our all-important lives and urgent needs, let us not forget that God has proven Himself thorough His Word and has accomplished our salvation on His timetable.  And while it might not be on our schedule and our time - the Lord makes all things beautiful in His time.