Waiting...

Today while i was waiting at the dermatologist and grew rather impatient with every minute after my appointment time i began to think of the concept of waiting and how we sometimes well most of the time hate waiting. I tried to be as patient as possible knowing that this office takes a zillion years but after the game got old i moved to check my email and than the email got old so i went on you tube and that got old and finally i decided to observe other people's impatience as well. I noticed that the longer amount of time that went on the angier people would get and they would come and complain and yell at the nurse receptionist. I also noticed that longer people had to wait the more restless they became and every little thing seemed to bother than like the air conditioning or the crying babies or even that the exit was to far ....stuff they never had notice before. I also observed that the longer people had to wait the more people they would rally for there complaining campaign and quickly would have several people complaining with them. At first none of these things bothered me but the longer i waited the more agitated i became and the more agitated i became the more i wanted to rally with the complaining campaign. I finally was called after an hour of waiting and when i finally got into the room i was once again left alone for awhile at first i began to get irrated but than i started to think of the notion of waiting.

Why is it that we hate waiting so much? I thought about myself not just in the waiting room but other times like at the bank when someone takes a million years at the teller or in line at publix or even on 1-75 when the person is driving slow as can be...or even more importantly in my walk with God...i hate to wait for anything or anyone but where the heck is the fire why the race to get so far so quick? i mean isn't it true that waiting on God's best anything can get old after awhile especially when it doesn't come right when we want it...at first we get angry and complain to God and yell and scream "come on God where the heck is my (u fill in the blank)!!!" Our prayers are filled with impatience and bitterness as to why we haven't recieved what we wanted. Than after we scream at God for awhile. We begin to complain about everything "so and so got a new job and i didn't! I've been asking for one forever." or "so and so got a husband and i'm still waiting God" so much that our focus now becomes not waiting on God's best but that God hasn't pulled through for us! After we've gotten angry and complained we begin to drag people down with us " Oh yeah i'm sure were never going to get a job God stinks." or " You know what so and so got so not fair what about us!" We act like if we do these things What we want will come faster but actually it comes at the same time which is Gods time! and we waste all this time, energy and stress into worrying and being impatient that we totally miss why God has us waiting for and his perfect planning skills. Waiting doesn't have to be a bad thing in fact it's not a bad thing its a time to enjoy the time you have and just take it slow and relax and just think. God doesn't have us wait to punish us but so that we can use our waiting time wisely. So whenever you begin to grow impatient on waiting on God just rem. to relax and think about why God whats you to wait and enjoy that time of peace!