Dear God, Give Me Patience But Please Hurry Up.

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Hi, my name is Patricia and I have waiting problems. I’m not a ‘waiter’ so I’m certainly not the ‘sit in the front of a yellow light waiting for it to turn green’ type of person. I’m impatient; impatient with long bank queues, food that takes forever to cook and situations; especially those that I have no control over the ‘when’ it will happen.

I have been struggling with waiting on God to come through in certain situations and therefore made the above prayer numerous times. There were times I thought I would make it easier for God and so gave Him choices; told Him I wanted A, B or C, but instead He picked the nonexistent option D; none of the above, and said that if I wait on Him He would make everything beautiful in His time. Seriously?! Me, wait for someone who sees one day like a thousand years? That wasn’t going to happen.

Other times, I gave Him deadlines, told Him I wanted to accomplish this by 25 and be that by 26 and when He wasn’t answering my prayers, I thought He was wasting my time. So I took matters into my own hands and took my short cuts, and after many dead ends later, I was back to square one; tired, hurt, confused and ready to stop arm wrestling with God.

There I was giving God back full control over my life. I was finally giving up trying to work things on my own and instead trust God and His timing. Do you know how hard that is, to take your hands off the steering wheel and tell God, let your will be done? But I did and that’s where I am right now; at the point of surrender. It doesn’t mean I completely understand God’s will but I do know that this amazing God who has taught the sun what time it should wake up in the morning and when to rest in the evening has a good sense of timing, how can I not trust Him with my life?

Therefore my prayer has changed to, ‘Dear Lord, teach me how to be patient, how to wait for eggs to boil for a full 10 minutes, teach me how to be still and know that you are God.’ Now as I wait, I’m continuously learning and growing. 

I believe everyone has been faced with some sort of waiting situation. For some it’s a job, promotion, school, others it’s a relationship, marriage or a baby. Whatever your case is, God knows exactly who you are and what you need at every point in your life. He is preparing something wonderful for you and it doesn’t matter how many years have passed; in God’s schedule you are right on time and He will make everything amazingly beautiful in His time.