I hate waiting…
One of the biggest pet peeves that I have in my life is waiting. I hate waiting for people to be ready to go somewhere. I hate waiting in traffic. I hate waiting rooms in doctor’s offices. I remember as a little kid hating to wait for Christmas day so that I can open all of my presents! I absolutely hate waiting!
I think it is pretty humorous the thing that I hate most in life is the thing that I am confronted most with on an everyday basis. Everyday I am put to the test on how I am going to respond when I have to wait. I can’t avoid it. It follows me everywhere! I think its interesting that in the list that the fruits of the spirt right in the very middle is the word patience. I love all of the other adjectives: love, joy, peace, kindness, faith, gentleness, and self control. I am great with those, but when the word patience finds itself in the midst, I feel as if there is much more work to be done.
So, in my life right now, I have this thing that I am waiting on God for. I have been waiting a while for this for some time now. It can be very frustrating at times. I can actually get very irritated because I am having to wait on God for this. There are times in which I am ready to just be done waiting. Times where I don’t understand why I have to wait while it seems that others are content and not waiting. I think about the waiting room in the doctor’s office. I am waiting for my appointment, but I am ready to leave the waiting room and return to back to life carrying the same thing that I had the appointment to see the doctor for. I hate waiting.
I am reminded of David in the Psalms. He was a man who had to wait on God for a lot of things. He had to wait on God to even save him from his enemies, the king, while he lived in caves. He had to have had some patience. He is always calling out to God in his process of waiting. In Psalms 5:3, 27:14, 33:20, 37:7, 38:15, 119:166, 130:5, 130:6, David tells us his thoughts on waiting. Sometimes he knows that God will come to his aide, while other times, he just wants God to show up and do something big.
What are you waiting for God to do in your life? Do you get frustrated in the waiting process?
Wow, well thats good to know that I’m not the only one who cannot sit still and wait for any extended period of time. I hate just sitting around waiting for something to happen, but I have a solution. Whenever I’m waitng for something really good, I’ll start getting ready. For instance, its the Holiday season and Christmas is right around the corner. Since I am so excited for Christmas Day and its only December 2nd so i’ll start making lists for giving as well as recieving from santa and ill decorate my entire house and make everything perfect for that special day. The same thing can be applied to waiting on God. While we are waiting around we might as well be productives, so we use that time to meditate on the word and pray and fast and serve and all that good stuff, that way on the day when God arrives we will be ready, and we won’t have wasted time sitting around pacing back and forward checking our clock until he shows up.
That was deep Shane. Really. I need to start doing more of that.
I wish I could be more productive when I’m waiting, like Shane said, but for me that’s kind of hard and I like to procrastinate. But anyways, I hate waiting as well. Either if I have to wait for my Internet to work or waiting for the bell to ring to go to the next class or waiting for God to answer a pray…I’m ALWAYS waiting!!! It irritates me because I need to work on patience, but then for some things I’m patient for. If it’s something I don’t want to do, then I have lots of patience not to finish or do it. I know I need to become more patient and right now I’m finding new ways to have more patience. I need to be patient for God to give me more patience.
I think i am a very patient person for the most part, but some times things just take too long! And lately i feel like i am becoming more and more impatient. Most of you know my brother is sick, well it just keeps flaring up, and he cant eat anything with out it hurting and its just been bad. Then last saturday he tore his calf muscle in the same exact place for the second time. i just want cooper to be a normal 13 year old boy again, playing hard with his friends and playing all the sports and eating all the food he loves, i dont want any of his problems to make him miss out on lifes offerings. I have just been really impatient with god, wanting for him to fix coop and all the things wrong in my life. I just keep thinking 3 years with an ulcer is long enough why any longer let him live again… but i know it doesnt work like that. and i need to stop asking so much of God and being impatient, because i know that coop was given this road for a reason and it can only make im a stronger person!
I wish God would just change me being gay
I’m so sick of just living this way it just gets ridiculous to the point of me wanting not to move on. Like all it reminds me of being in the car in a desert and just waiting to get the destination only it seems so far away and not knowing when you’ll be there. I mean, its hard. But I just have to think of the bigger picture God has for me. I mean, I’ve only been waiting for a couple of years. Maybe 3 or 4. And maybe the destination isn’t the reason of God making you wait but the journey of waiting. I mean, you hear all the time people who wait their whole lifetimes for things they need and just overlook the whole reason of why God gives us challenges us in that we can bring glory to God.
Josh, I think you just need to focus on the waiting in what God has planned for you and what he wants you to get out of waiting. If you don’t know, ask God for answers. That’s all I have to say. God answered his answer to me and so he can to you. I’m not saying I’m done waiting but I know my spiritual destination now.
wow eric, i really liked what you had to say, and i think everything really just goes back to the old saying, its the journey not the destination. Because if we all just skipped what was in between, nothing would be the same, or as fun, we would be skipping our whole life, from birth to death… like when we are on our way to hume, we are always soo excited and just want to get there, but with out the movies, and the hilarious bus rides, and Walmart, the trip would not be the same. those always end up being the best memories! I mean for me i still remember my ride up to bass lake with jacob and nate, and all the very interesting conversations and everything that went on. Some times we get so impatinet we forget to enjoy the times we do have, so we need to rely on God, and like eric said we need to ask him for answers. but i think that we need to slow down our lives because in the end we will get there, one way or another but it is the path we choose, as robert frost once said, “i take the path less traveled”!
i just blogged about it.
http://cherbie.wordpress.com
been waiting. and then (besides thinking of david) i thought of abraham and sara and elizabeth and zachariah (not that i’m waiting for a child) but that they waited for like forever for a child…and decided u know what, a few months of waiting is nothing. i can wait some more. : ) with God’s help.