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.
posted by Geoff @ 12:20 pm
4 comments
4 Comments:
You sum it up so well, I'm often impatiently waiting patiently...
and in one paragraph even managed to sum up a week I spent previously - writing an essay on Ecclesiastes and then going to see Titanic the new musical...
Sometimes you can forget to wait at all. Expect it now and get upset if you don't get it. How is it that something you don't have can bring perspective and joy in the midst of disappointment? Before I think about patience I might just get back to valuing the wait at all!
Love your work, Geoff.
Hey Gin, thanks for your comments... It goes to show... life is full of irony! Who could have predicted that real life and my blog might bear such close resemblance? Rare indeed! ;-)
And JT... Once again you've trumped me with your keen insight and analysis. "Valuing the wait"... What a great thought! Lately I've been thinking about how I view the passing of time... and the need to more positively apprehend each day as a 'gift' and as another step in the journey or life adventure that God is taking me on... that He has planned each step for a purpose in order that I might be able to look back and see His footprints alongside my own. (Hmm... OK, venturing into cliché territory !) Thanks again...
Ah Geoff...your words are music to the soul. The things of this world me me long for the things of the next.
Come Lord Jesus.
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