"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9
As we wait to see if my husbands current chemo is going to be effective, the concept of waiting is hitting home strongly.
I'd not realized how impatiently I wait for answers until this last bout of ‘what is going to happen’ has gotten hold of me. I am realized how our society is permeated with instant gratification and instant answers., and I'm wondering if it's part of the "instant" generation we are in.
Most any question we have can be answered almost immediately by a search engine like Google. We have instant coffee, microwaves, internet email instead of letters, cell phones so folks can contact us anytime, 24-hour TV news with live broadcast of events – and it goes on and on.
Anyone remember when you had to get up early to put the coffee on and wait for it to perk? Such a delicious aroma permeated the house. If we wanted our food warm, we had to actually warm it up on the stove. We waited for letters from folks – or made a phone call – that may or may not be answered. No answering machines to take a message – no caller ID. The phone could ring at home and you had to answer it to know who was on the other end. If you missed a call while you were gone – well, you didn’t even know!
How life itself has sped up. We get instant updates on FaceBook. We download games and play them whenever we want – no waiting for someone to suggest a game-night get together.
I’m realizing how steeped we are – in this “instant” culture.
If you are having a difficult time today, if your answers just aren’t forthcoming, perhaps you –like I – need to go to God’s word and read His answers to being in difficult situations. I am realizing that waiting equals trusting God’s ways and timing – and not following my desire for “instant” results.
Father God, not only am I impatient, I also get self-centered in times like these. Help to realize once again that Your ways are so different than mine, and that they are ways I can trust. I pray your hand upon every reader who is “waiting” on You today. Amen and amen.