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If you are like me then you've had your share of phone calls that don't even begin with the greeting: "Hello, thanks for calling. How may I help you?" Instead we dial and count: one-ringy dingy, two-ringy dingy and before we get to three the phone is answered with: "Can you hold?" And, before an answer can be given we are wisked away into that company's version of relaxing music all because they are so rushed and busy at their respective projects.
And then, there are all those people flying down the road in the hope of beating a changing signal light hoping to save a minute only to get stopped in the intersection by the red light and worse, stuck behind me - Albuquerque's slowest driver. (Yes, grandmas do frown as they're passing me.)
And then, after running into the market for 53 items some people make a dash for the 7 Items Or Less line in the hope of getting out of the store just a second faster.
What's all the rush about? Where's everybody going? Is there something happening I don't know about?
As I read the Scripture one word seems to pop out over and over again: WAIT
Creation waited for becoming
Patriarchs waited for calling
Israel waited for liberation
Prophets waited for Messiah
Mary waited for Jesus
Apostles waited in the garden
Jesus waited for His arrest
Guards waited for His death
Apostles waited for His resurrection
Church waited for the Paraclete
We wait for Jesus to come again
I think I'm detecting a pattern here. So as we sit together, now 43 days since Resurrection and 3 days since Ascension, we wait. We wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
There are no events in Scripture that tell me to hurry up, or to accomplish a certain set of tasks, or anything else that can somehow make God act more quickly. God is not on my time, I'm on God's time. God's time makes me wait, and watch, and pray. When the time is right God will act and act mightily. The question then is not whether I've done everything quickly; rather when God acts, will I be ready?
AMDG
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