I stink at waiting.
I know you do too.
We all wait: we have desires and longings.
The real issue is WHAT we are waiting for.
Why is WAITING central to being a Christian?
Find out why by watching our Truth in Two video (full text below).
EVERYONE is WAITING, waiting for Jesus, “the desire of the nations” (Haggai 2:7).
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FULL TEXT:
Patience is a virtue I wish I had more of. I want everything yesterday. I am always looking for the shortest checkout line at the grocery store. If you are slow taking off after the light turns green, my hand is poised over the car horn. And don’t EVEN get me started about doctor’s office visits.
I stink at waiting. And yet, at the core of what makes me a Christian, is waiting. You see, God is slow. His timing is WAY off as far as I’m concerned. God’s movement in my life finds me tapping my toe as I check my watch. My favorite word is “Now.” His favorite word is “Later.” There are times when I feel like I am perpetually on hold on my phone call with Heaven.
But then I remember the Hebrews. I read verses like Psalm 74:9, “We are given no miraculous signs; no prophets are left, none of us knows how long it will be.”
This is what it must have felt like to be a Hebrew waiting 400 years between Malachi and Matthew. God was preparing just the right moment for Jesus’ arrival: the people, the place, the events, the time. As Paul says in Galatians 4:4 “When the significant moment had arrived, God sent His Son.”
400 years without a peep from a prophet and then, suddenly, the hallelujah chorus. “The kingdom of this world is become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever.”
So, yes, count me impatient, list me among the little children clamoring for Christmas to come. Hear me say, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” But rest assured: Jesus was and is worth the wait. Both as the Christmas child, and, the coming King.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, president of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking truth wherever it’s found.