Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.
Have you played the phone game? You know, the one where everyone at dinner puts their smart phones in a pile. First one to extract his or hers has to buy everyone else’s meals. With most groups, someone will cave before the entrée comes. Because someone might need them, you see. Someone whose need could not wait even an hour until the meal is complete. And you 
wonder, so why did they come out to dinner if something else is that all-fired important?
Or maybe you’re one of those people who weaves in and out traffic, cutting it just a little too tight between other vehicles when you change lanes. What happens when you end up at the light at the same time as someone you blew past? Well, you avoid their eyes, of course.
Or maybe you talk over family and friends and coworkers. There’s no need for them to finish their comments. You know what they’re going to say. You’ve already planned your response, based on what you know they’re going to say.
Is it any wonder, given the way we conduct our lives today, that we have little patience for God? Bless me, and bless me quick. Heal me, and heal me quick. We offer up our hopes and dreams in prayer, and if the desired answer doesn’t come posthaste, we question His wisdom and His love. We forget about the times God’s answers, which came in His time, not ours, were more wonderful than anything we could have ever imagined.
“Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted and wait for the Lord,” the author of Psalm 27, believed to be King David, advised. Consider David’s own life; the times he showed patience and restraint and faith, he prospered. The times he took matters into his own hands, things got messed up royally. Let’s learn from his example. Let’s have the courage to wait for God.
