Happy Monday!
I’m in a hurry to write about today’s word-of-the-week…
Wait
I’m writing this on the morning of the Super Bowl. In America it’s perhaps the largest social event of the year—sorta sad, but that’s for another day.
The Super Bowl is apparently a football game that involves maybe an hour of football, two hours of commercials, half an hour of halftime “entertainment,” and another hour or so of analysis, replays, and other semi-sports-related stuff. There’s a FIVE HOUR official pre-game show, in addition to the two-week babble leading to the big day.
If you want to watch the actual football game, you’re going to have to wait. A lot.
I don’t like waiting. I want something to happen. I’m the guy who’s tempted to drive ten miles out of the way to avoid a five minute traffic delay. My default setting seems to be, “Do something, even if it’s wrong.”
Then I read:
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. (Psalm 27:14)
Frankly, my honest, prayerful, super-spiritual reaction is: I DON’T WANNA!
“Waiting” for God is associated with qualities like trust, expectation, hope, perseverance, listening…well, okay, if you put it that way…
Silliness aside, waiting is difficult. The only thing that’s harder than waiting is living with the consequences of the dumb choices I make when I try to control what I can’t control.
The Super Bowl teaches another lesson about waiting. It’s not a good idea to fill that waiting time with junk food. If the waiting has a point, as God’s actions usually do, maybe I should wait with something more substantial than the chips and dips of life.
I hope your team won. Have a great week.
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