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Posted by Janet Mendenhall on March 01, 2010 at 11:41 am
Whether it is for a check-out lane at Wal-Mart or a slow Internet connection, “wait” is a four-letter word. Good things might come to those who wait, but we have invested well in assuring ourselves we won’t have to test that adage.
We don’t wait for food to cook, for film to develop, and certainly not for a word to arrive from a friend or loved one. From instant pudding to instant messaging, we want it now. And consequently, when we must wait, we are not good at it.
We are not in bad company as impatient people. Abraham in his haste to receive God’s promise hurried to a handmaiden. Aaron, in the prolonged absence of the mountaintop-Moses, took matters into his own crafty hands. David whined for God to rush his wrath towards his pursuers. But in God’s time, His people celebrated His faithfulness.
Many of you are waiting. Waiting for a birth mother to choose you, waiting for God to answer your prayers, waiting for your baby.
I remember that waiting. I remember it was neither easy nor fun. I remember I was not very good at it. Through the power of prayer and the positive words of encouraging friends, we not only endured the wait, but also grew. You will, too. There is joy in the journey. You will find it, too.
Twelve years after the wait ended, one of my son’s favorite stories is what happened on the final day of our wait. We had reason to believe a baby had been born but for days had no word from our caseworker. Certain that our wait had been in vain and that something had gone wrong, I held the phone and, sitting on the garage floor out of earshot from the others in my house, listened as a godly friend prayed with me and reassured me as I cried. As I listened and wiped my eyes, Call Waiting alerted me to another call. “You have a son!” the voice happily announced. There was no wiping those tears. “A name?” she asked. “Samuel,” I said. Because God heard.
If God is calling you to wait, then wait. Good things do come. And one day someone will want to hear your waiting stories.
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