Are you good at waiting? How long do you wait before giving up? (Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 789).
Waiting
is something people have to be very good at. We all await together
the coming of the New Jerusalem – a place filled with God's light
of happiness, goodness, and justice rolling down like waters. In the
meantime – and it's been a long meantime – we must wait. But our
waiting is not characterized by inaction but by sometimes
excruciatingly painful attempts to advance. Thus we constantly live
with a carrot before us, and with this incentive we refuse to flag or
tire. In our personal lives we find ourselves often waiting for
better times ahead. The next promotion or possessing the ideal gadget
may never come. But God instills in us persistent hope, and this
lightens every burden. So it turns out we are quite good at waiting.
Kathy has on her closet door the saying: “God give me patience and
give it to me now.” We know the real processes of the world and
their tendency to lag our yearning for immediate gratification. Our
ability to imagine and yearn for a different configuration of things
from the present is our greatest strength and our most persistent
sorrow.
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