Waiting patiently…

It’s been a long time since I've posted anything… so perhaps for at least some of you, you’ve been ‘waiting patiently’?

As I sit and reflect in this brief moment - and there hasn’t been much time for that lately… (the evidence speaks for itself!) I consider all of the things I’m waiting patiently for…

Many things…

And I groan inwardly (and sometimes outwardly) as I wait… patiently?

Yet, I must ask myself honestly… am I really waiting patiently? What does it look like to wait patiently? Am I manifesting the fruits of the Spirit… love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control?

What in fact am I waiting for?

Mostly I think I’ve been waiting for the fulfilment of my earthly desires… for love and contentment, for peace and reconciliation, for expectations to be fulfilled, for things to become clearer… for people to reply to my emails?

And yet, these things all seem like a chasing after the wind… Mostly, I’ve given up hope that these things will ever change. It’s life on the Titanic… let the music play on!

So where is my hope? Surely it’s not in the things of this world… as much as I’d like to put my hope in them! After all, hope that is seen is no hope at all! What I’m ultimately hoping for, what I’m truly waiting for, is to be with the Lord… and in many ways I can’t wait!

Pray that I’d wait patiently…

I think I’ve exhausted my reflective potential for now. Here’s a beautiful Psalm that sums it up perfectly! Enjoy!


Psalm 130

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;

2 O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.

3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared.

5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.

6 My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.

7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.

8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.