MAN IN BLACK: If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a
rope, or a tree branch, or find something
useful to do.
INIGO: I could do that. In fact, I've got some rope
up here. But I do not think that you will
accept my help, since I am only waiting
around to kill you.
MAN IN BLACK: That does put a damper on our relationship.
INIGO: But I promise I will not kill you until you reach the top.
MAN IN BLACK: That's very comforting. But I'm afraid you'll just have to wait.
INIGO: I hate wait.
No one has said it better. I hate wait.
I know where I want to go and what I want to be doing, but it seems like everything is so far off. Now I know as well as the next person that it's all part of the process and things will only be better because of the time spent in anticipation. But I'm so excited to get things going. To be moving forward, making things happen. But instead I sit here, on my couch, twiddling my thumbs, waiting...
I've have always been an indecisive being. And because of that, to make my life easier, God answered all the difficult questions for me years before I needed to know answers, as if to prepare me for what was ahead. I knew I wanted to be a teacher in preschool. I knew I wanted to go to Milligan my 4th grade year. He pointed me toward inner-city teaching my Sophomore year in high school. God has brought a masters program to my attention already. And I praise Him for that, for He only knows that I wouldn't have been able to make those decisions on my own. Knowing years in advance has given me time s to think about it, prepare for it, get excited for it, dream about it. And as that time grows closer, it gets harder to wait. As Inigo said, I hate wait.
God heard my prayers. 1 Samuel 7:12 was brought to my attention at Bible Study this week. I love the idea of an Ebenezer stone. It is a reminder that although we haven't seen into our future, and we don't know what is ahead, we can look in our past and say "Thus far the Lord has helped me." And He has! Thus far, I can see God's fingerprints in every area of my life. Thus far, God has never let me down. Thus far, God has been with me through the craziest times and the times of waiting.
Another great message of relief I heard this week was that of the movable mountain. We've all heard "with faith the size of a mustard seed you can move a mountain." But there are somethings that just won't get out of the way. No matter how many times you scream for it to move, it won't budge an inch. If you ask a mountain to move, and it doesn't, could it possibly mean that God wants you to climb that mountain in order to see Him transfigured?
So I stand at the foot of the looming Mountain of Waiting with my Ebenezer stone in hand. Having lost my voice from months of screaming "MOVE!" And yet there it sits, casting a shadow of years of boredom and anxiety. I look down at the stone in my hands and see the fingerprints God has left upon it, making it obvious how evident He has been in my life. And so I start my climb. One foot in front of the other, every once in a while taking a break to look at the Ebenezer stone. And I wait in anticipation for the moment when I reach the top of that mountain and see my God transfigured. At that moment I will bow down and say "thus far, you, Lord, have helped me."
I've have always been an indecisive being. And because of that, to make my life easier, God answered all the difficult questions for me years before I needed to know answers, as if to prepare me for what was ahead. I knew I wanted to be a teacher in preschool. I knew I wanted to go to Milligan my 4th grade year. He pointed me toward inner-city teaching my Sophomore year in high school. God has brought a masters program to my attention already. And I praise Him for that, for He only knows that I wouldn't have been able to make those decisions on my own. Knowing years in advance has given me time s to think about it, prepare for it, get excited for it, dream about it. And as that time grows closer, it gets harder to wait. As Inigo said, I hate wait.
"Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, ' Thus far has the Lord helped us'"
God heard my prayers. 1 Samuel 7:12 was brought to my attention at Bible Study this week. I love the idea of an Ebenezer stone. It is a reminder that although we haven't seen into our future, and we don't know what is ahead, we can look in our past and say "Thus far the Lord has helped me." And He has! Thus far, I can see God's fingerprints in every area of my life. Thus far, God has never let me down. Thus far, God has been with me through the craziest times and the times of waiting.
"After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun,and his clothes became as white as the light."
So I stand at the foot of the looming Mountain of Waiting with my Ebenezer stone in hand. Having lost my voice from months of screaming "MOVE!" And yet there it sits, casting a shadow of years of boredom and anxiety. I look down at the stone in my hands and see the fingerprints God has left upon it, making it obvious how evident He has been in my life. And so I start my climb. One foot in front of the other, every once in a while taking a break to look at the Ebenezer stone. And I wait in anticipation for the moment when I reach the top of that mountain and see my God transfigured. At that moment I will bow down and say "thus far, you, Lord, have helped me."
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This is such a beautiful post. There is so much waiting in life, isn't there? I hate wait too. Hang in there, climb the mountain, enjoy the view on the way. I'll be climbing right along with you...even if my mountain is clear over here in California. :) Oh, and I personally think getting through college is one of the hardest waiting periods ever, simply because it's all preparation for what is to come...and your just so ready to just get started and stop preparing. But there is life to be lived in the waiting periods of our life too...find the life in it...otherwise the waiting will suck the life out of you.
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