Wait For It...

So yesterday God taught me another cool lesson :)
I was meeting some friends for lunch after church at Mill Creek Town Center, but there was some festival going on, so Main Street was blocked off and traffic was horrible! People walking around everywhere and absolutely nowhere to park. I was following some friends and after driving around for about half an hour I just got so frustrated and annoyed that I was like, forget it, I don't even want this anymore, and left. They called me up later telling me they found parking and were inside, but I was already pretty far so I said, oh well, sorry, maybe next time. Later, as I was going through a drive through (I won't tell you which one :P), the line was taking forever, and again, I was just ready to give up and say, forget it, I don't even want this anymore, I'm gonna go get something else, because I didn't want to wait. I stuck it out though and finally after getting food I went to the park to lie in the sun and wait for John and Vita to finish whatever they were doing so that I could go to camp with them. Again, as I was waiting, I was getting frustrated and impatient thinking about other things I could be doing and other people I could be with (YP BBQ). I was just about to say, forget it, I don't even want to go to camp anymore, when God spoke to me... Wait for it. Excuse me, Lord? If you wait for it, you'll get it. Get what? The parking spot, the drive through food, going to camp... whatever...

Sometimes when we want something and it doesn't come easily to us, we have to wait for it. We may be ok with waiting for a little bit, but if it gets too long we think about all the other things we are missing out on in the meantime. The frustration of waiting can even cause us to no longer want the thing we are waiting for, as we are ready to quit and go after something different, something easier to acquire. Meanwhile, if we just wait, eventually we will get it... When God promises us something and we don't get it right away we all too eagerly walk away from it, thinking it will never come, and therefore missing it. If I didn't drive away, I would have eventually found a parking spot as my friends did. If I would have got out of the drive through line, I wouldn't have gotten my food, and if I didn't wait for John and Vita I wouldn't have gone to camp and gotten ridiculously blessed :) True, there are always alternatives, but they are not what you really originally wanted and may not be what God has for you. Wait for it... just wait for it. Seems so simple, yet so hard especially when you don't see the end of waiting in sight, but it is there, and if you wait, you will get what you're waiting for, but if you walk away pursuing other things, you won't get it. And then we can't say, see, I didn't get it! Of course you didn't get it! You didn't wait for it! It was on it's way to you!

Patience is not one of my strong virtues, but it's something God is working on in me. Love is patient... I've always wondered why patience was first on the list of love's attributes, and now I think I know... Love knows how to wait :)