At the end of last year, I drove into Wimbledon early one afternoon. It was one of the last shopping days before Christmas. As I came past the shopping centre I saw that the traffic entering Queens Road had backed up all the way to the end of the road. So I quickly decided to carry on down the Broadway, turned left into Trinity Road and left again into Queens Road to approach the church from the other end. I was pleased with myself for avoiding the queue but just before I reached the church, a milk float passed me coming the other way and I realised it was the same milk float that had been at the back of the queue! So I didn’t got there any quicker – it just meant that I didn’t have to wait.There is something within most of us that struggles with waiting – we’d rather travel a couple of miles out of our way than wait!
Waiting has a different effect, depending on what we are waiting for...
· A child waiting for Christmas does so with excitement and impatience
· A bride waiting for her wedding day is full of excitement and anticipation
· A mother waiting for the birth of a baby knows excitement and apprehension
· But waiting for exam results is different!
· Waiting to see the dentist doesn’t usually fill you with glee does it?!
· Waiting for results of hospital tests isn’t easy
· Waiting at a bus stop for a bus to come is tedious
· Waiting for the morning when you are having a sleepless night is disheartening
Someone observed that…
Waiting is the antithesis of hurrying. We learn very early in life that we are expected to hurry most of the time’ (some of us can remember our mothers telling us to 'get a move on' otherwise we would be late for school)
For some reason it seems easier to hurry than to wait. Miles Stanford wrote: “It seems that most believers have difficulty in realizing and facing up to the inexorable fact that God does not hurry in his development of our Christian life. He is working from and for eternity!”
· A child waiting for Christmas does so with excitement and impatience
· A bride waiting for her wedding day is full of excitement and anticipation
· A mother waiting for the birth of a baby knows excitement and apprehension
· But waiting for exam results is different!
· Waiting to see the dentist doesn’t usually fill you with glee does it?!
· Waiting for results of hospital tests isn’t easy
· Waiting at a bus stop for a bus to come is tedious
· Waiting for the morning when you are having a sleepless night is disheartening
Someone observed that…
Waiting is the antithesis of hurrying. We learn very early in life that we are expected to hurry most of the time’ (some of us can remember our mothers telling us to 'get a move on' otherwise we would be late for school)
For some reason it seems easier to hurry than to wait. Miles Stanford wrote: “It seems that most believers have difficulty in realizing and facing up to the inexorable fact that God does not hurry in his development of our Christian life. He is working from and for eternity!”
Psalm 130:6 says 'I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.'
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