A Busy Wait

Doctors know patients don’t enjoy waiting so to appease us, they fill the waiting area with interesting magazines and books, a water cooler and restroom, plush couches and chairs, soothing music, and even wireless access.  All these amenities are meant to make our wait more pleasant, and to help us forget we are ... waiting.  It must work because one time Mr. Bill & I fell asleep in a waiting room. I woke first to see everyone staring at us -- like maybe one of us was snoring.

Do you catch yourself a bit impatient for the Lord's return? I've even caught myself thinking, "why mop, Jesus may return tomorrow?" Second Peter 3:10-11 says, "The day of the Lord will come like a thief. The skies will disappear with a loud noise . . . So what kind of people should you be?" The answer is quickly found in Verses 11-12, "You should live holy lives and serve God, as you wait for and look forward to the coming of the day of God." Hello, Beverly! The promise of His future return is certainly no call for slothfulness (that's laziness) in the present (that's today). I read recently that we definitely have a problem with waiting -- we are so good at waiting we don't wait with expectancy. We are too content. We seldom search the skies. Sadly, we're more focused on ... waiting, instead of listening to the Voice of God and the Divine work of the Holy Spirit in the here and now. While we wait, we miss opportunities of service [for Him] and worship [of Him] which draws us closer to Christ Himself. Yes, in our waiting ... we miss Him -- the One we are so anxiously waiting for. My Dad has always said we must not be "so heavenly minded, we are no earthly good." I believe God’s Way is that His Children embrace a "busy wait" and in the moment our Hope of Glory returns, we'll be found waiting ... yet busy for Him.