Waiting
While I was preparing for a message that I shared this morning based on 1 Peter 2, I had this sudden thought:
All of us have to go through times of waiting. In those times I believe there are at least three things we can do during that period. First we can just ENDURE it. We suffer through it. We may complain and be miserable. Waiting until mercifully the time passes by , when the waiting stops and we finally reach our destination or our turn is up.
Second, we can ENJOY it. And by this I mean we can think of ways for time to pass by quicker. We amuse ourselves, we find any form of distraction to avoid the reality that we are not where we want to be and this is just part of life. So we look to these forms of entertainment which allow us to forget that if we had a fast forward button we would simply skip through all these commercials of life.
But third, and I think this could be the better is to EXPLORE it. We can ask God what this time of waiting is for. We can seek if there is an opportunity that is there that otherwise would not have been open to us had not we been forced to stop from the constant movement that often describes our lives today. Maybe in those times when we seek God for His presence on those dreaded moments we can actually see that He has something that He is teaching us or even bringing into our attention.
All of us have to go through times of waiting. In those times I believe there are at least three things we can do during that period. First we can just ENDURE it. We suffer through it. We may complain and be miserable. Waiting until mercifully the time passes by , when the waiting stops and we finally reach our destination or our turn is up.
Second, we can ENJOY it. And by this I mean we can think of ways for time to pass by quicker. We amuse ourselves, we find any form of distraction to avoid the reality that we are not where we want to be and this is just part of life. So we look to these forms of entertainment which allow us to forget that if we had a fast forward button we would simply skip through all these commercials of life.
But third, and I think this could be the better is to EXPLORE it. We can ask God what this time of waiting is for. We can seek if there is an opportunity that is there that otherwise would not have been open to us had not we been forced to stop from the constant movement that often describes our lives today. Maybe in those times when we seek God for His presence on those dreaded moments we can actually see that He has something that He is teaching us or even bringing into our attention.
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