Waiting

Make haste to my, O LORD!" the psalmist david prayed ( Ps.70:1) Like him, we don't like to wait. We dislike the long lines at the super-market checkout counters, and the traffic jams downtown and around the shopping malls. We hate to wait at the bank or at the restuarant.
And then there are the harder waits: a childless couple waiting for a child; a single person waiting for marriage; an addict waiting for a kind and gentle word; a worried patient waiting for a diagnosis from a doctor.

What we wait for, however, is far less important than what God is doing while we wait. In such times he works in us to develop those hard to archieve spiritual virtues of meekness, kindess, and patienence with others. But more important, we learn to lean on God alone and to " rejoice and be glad" in him. (v.4)

F.B MEYER said, " What a chapter might be written of God's delays! Its is the mystery of the art of educating human spirits to the finest temper of which they are capable. What searchings of heart, what analyzings of motives , what testings of the word of God, what upliftings of soul....All these are associated with those weary days of waiting, which are, nevertheless, big with spiritual destiny." - David Roper

Be still, My child, and know that i am God!Wait thou patiently - i know the path you trod.So falter not, nor fear, nor think to run and hide,For I , thy hope and strength, am waiting by thy side - Hein

God strethches our patience to enlarge our soul