Don’t cop out. It’s too easy. Don’t give in to the lying temptation that you have to have what you want when you want it. We have been poisoned by instant gratification and fallen victim to our desires. There is something refreshing about waiting. As I embrace patience I feel like I am walking in the opposite direction of the world. I can just see myself walking against the masses, pushing my way through the crowd to get to a place of sanity and peace. It’s such a sweet thing to wait. Nobody else is doing it and that is so attractive and promising. It feels so real to wait; knowing everyone else is pursuing the opposite confirms that it is in fact reality. It just feels right...
…Wait. Wait to drink until your 21. Wait to have sex until your married. Wait be in a relationship until you know it’s the right thing. Wait for God to provide for you instead of trying to control your life. Wait for others and allow them to go first. Wait for Jesus to satisfy your soul. Wait for Him to return. Just take a deep breath and wait. We don’t have to have everything the second we feel a desire for it. Most things of substance and value require time. It takes time to develop quality relationships, it takes time to grieve, it takes time to heal, and it takes time to repent. Our inability to wait has made us a shallow, immature people.
I don’t want to be enslaved to the things I desire. Sometimes my desires seem so intense I can barely grasp that life will go on if they aren’t satisfied quickly and other times, blessed times, I feel so strong in Him as though I could go my entire life without receiving the things I want. I will not spend my life laboring for the things I desire, I will labor for the Kingdom and allow God to bless me, in His time, with the good things He has for me. Things are much more enjoyable if we’ve waited for them. It’s amazing to dwell on the truth that God has perfect timing. I want so desperately to live a life of perfect timing. God’s time scale of perfection requires a lot of waiting. It’s worth it.
“I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.” Psalm 130:5-7