As I (CA) am writing this on my phone and editing it and posting it, along with being interrupted by a phone call, which I took, it has become quite apparent to me that our lives are constantly in warp drive/ light speed. I would completely deny and contest it if somebody accused me of it too. But then stop and think, we carry around phones the size of a deck of cards, with more powers than a computer. Wait. Just 50 years ago a rotary phone was new age. My parents had one in our house when I was little. Do you know how long it takes to dial a long distance number with a rotary phone? Days, it takes days!! And then only 50 years before that phone wasn't even an option everything was done with a telegraph, which is even slower. Now we are spoiled. We call and text and email constantly! And we are answered immediately. No waiting or holding on. No, "hey I missed your call and I didn't check the answer machine"!
We may be missing the fact that God doesn't have reception to our smart phones, even though He is on our prayer speed dial and we call on Him all the time. If you didn't know, He takes everybody’s calls. But he has a tendency to answer on His time table, which usually isn't as quick as we get back to one another with a text.
We need to remember the story of Jacob and how he worked for seven years to accomplish his goal. Then, mid-stream, Jacob was cheated and had to put in more time! Yet, even with the examples from the Bible, we still demand prompt customer service at all hours, night and day. We seem to expect our demands to be answered immediately with a crack of lightning from God.
As we press a little deeper into this year, whose time table are we on when we pray? Ours or the Lords? I'm certain, with all my faith, that He will lead us down the right path. Of course, at the start, it might not look like the super highway we had hoped for. Probably not, but I'm sure God will have us showing up right on time to the party! (Or just 15 minutes late cause that's fashionable and nobody wants to be first to the party.)
P.S. - to all the clock watchers it took you five minutes to read this! And you only missed a couple texts, a call, and 3 emails!
I'm often bothered by God's time. I am one of the people who wants an answer right away. Maybe it IS because of our fast-paced world. On the other hand, more than once, God has answered my prayer and I just overlooked the answer. Maybe it's not His timing that's off!
ReplyDeletei feel the same way, i wish curtain things would happen faster but the road is always more important then the ending cause once you reach the end there is no where to go after that!
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