2,000. What if it was the estimated number of years you had to wait to see what you were told would happen? Are you kidding me? Like we even live to see 100 years. 

Something I notice as a trend, even in myslef, is there is a lack of patience for people after they are told something will happen. This feeling could be explained as the feeling we get when tomorrow is Saturday and we’re off from work, or when we’ve waited 6 months for a vacation and the next day is the day. 

Can you “get on the level” of people in the Bible? What if you were alive while prophesies were being spoken instead of reading them after? Could you imagine having to wait years before something you knew to be true to happen? I dont know about you, but I have to think I would go crazy waiting on Jesus’s birth. But their faith allowed them to wait. Their faith knowing that God’s plan would come to play and all they had to do was wait. I dont mean they sat around twiddling their thumbs either. They continued doing what was needed of them daily. 

Can you think of a time maybe someone of faith told you something was going to happen, but you couldnt even imagine it much less have patience for it? I can think of one particular incident in my life that I’m still waiting to happen. I won’t go into detail with this one, simply due to it’s magnitude. Just know after thinking of those who waited on Jesus, I can now allow that to rest in my mind while I take on daily tasks God has for me. 

If all those miracles preformed during the waiting period could take place, imagine with trust and faith what can be done through you. I can promise waiting on God’s timing is worth the wait. 

PRAYER: 

We all have suffered from lack of patience with something at somepoint. In the times we need patience most please surround us with your presence. Show us how to listen to you. Work through our impatience. In Jesus name. -Amen.