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2013-12-04 - Learn to Wait
As a headstrong and impatient little girl, I just couldnt wait to eat
a piece of my chocolate bunny, the morning after Easter. If you can imagine
a knife with an eight-inch blade in the hands of a 5-year old child in the
kitchen, at about 6 a.m.. you can also imagine my sleeping mothers
horror, when I soon approached her for help. It seems the knife slipped on
the surface of the refrigerated Russell Stover(tm) bunny, and my index finger
on my right hand was bleeding. Now you couldnt tell how upset my Mom
was in the moment, for she quickly arose and tended to my hand with the calmness
of an ER nurse. Afterward, however, she read me the riot act on doing something
like that without asking for help first, before going back downstairs
to make some coffee and have a cigarette. My impatience had caused a difficult
start to her day.
I wonder how it is for God when we are so impatient, and just go off half-cocked
and end up hurting ourselves. We can do it physically or emotionally, and
clearly spiritually, when we dont fully rely on him and wait to get
help with things beyond ourselves. Yes, we need to do our part and let him
do his, yet sometimes the lines on that get blurred, and we get hurt. He
doesnt react to our ridiculousness by flippantly scolding us, even
when we deserve it. He still helps us, when we finally ask for him to get
the bleeding stopped. There are often consequences for our waiting
so long to go to him, but he still doesnt throw it in our faces. When
we ask and we are repentant, he easily forgives us. What a blessing!!! I
would like to feel freer to pray for the strength to know when to ask for
help sooner, rather than later. That would be a blessing, too. What will
you do when you need help?
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not
be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
(Isaiah 40:31 KJV)
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that
wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth.
(Ps 37:9 KJV)
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my
sword save me. (Ps 44:6 KJV)
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put
my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
(Ps 56:4 KJV)
Father, if you are willing, take this cup
from me; yet not my will, but yours be
done.(Luke 22:42 KJV)
"your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it
is in heaven.(Matt 6:1 KJV)
Deborah Durrett
cfpraydeb@gmail.com
http://www.cfdevotionals.org
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