Not Tomorrow...

"Just give it time and everything changes, tomorrow comes, today will be gone" -Jon McLaughlin

"From of old no one has heard, or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him." -Isaiah 64:4

Last night I got to talk with my long lost LG, Peggy Howell, who wanted to check in and see how I was. She asked me how things were going. "Good," I said, "although sometimes I wish things went faster. Sometimes I wish I could just get on with it."

Sometimes I feel like God has blessed me with the gift of patience. But other days I feel like it's the last thing that I am. It's easy to be patient with little things like slow waiters at restaurants or with busy people in the library. But with long term things, I'm terribly IMPATIENT!

I want immediate answers. I want immediate movement. I struggle trusting in an uncertain future when I know how I want things to work out. When there is something I want, too often I want it immediately, putting what I want way before trying to help others get what they are fighting for. But in talking to Peggy, I was reminded of something I tell others all the time. "If something is really special and important to you, it's worth waiting for."

Sometimes things don't work out on the schedule we want them to. The Israelites had to wait 40 years in the desert for a promised land beyond there wildest dreams. God doesn't say that we will get the things we want today, or even at all. If something is worth fighting for or truly special though, then it is worth waiting for. I haven't been very patient recently with multiple places in my life. But while I was talking to Peggy talking about something I have been hoping would come soon, I said, "Probably not tomorrow though." A lot of times we want things today, I know I do. And sometimes if we can't have them immediately, then we give up on it. Sometimes things don't come today. And sometimes they don't come tomorrow. But if it's something truly worth waiting for, then I can wait and be patient...

forever unfinished...