Psalm 24:11 Wait patiently for the LORD. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the LORD. It is so hard to wait patiently. Think about little kids and Christmas. They may not even know what it is, but they can sense the excitement and it keeps them up at night in anticipation. Or what about when you see something you really want. For example, every night we do the same routine with my two boys. They get dinner, a bath, a bottle, and then we read and they go to bed. And every night, when Gavin sees his bottle being warmed up in the microwave he starts crying because he wants it now. It’s almost comical because there’s never been a time when we haven’t given him the bottle, and he doesn’t like it if it’s cold. So he has to wait a whole 28 seconds before it’s ready, and you’d think he’d never get that thing fast enough! Even as adults we have a hard time waiting patiently. At least, I know I do. I don’t like to wait in lines, and I always seem to pick the slowest one. I have a hard time waiting when I see something I really want to buy. Sometimes I have a hard time waiting until the boys are in bed so that I can make dinner and sit down and eat (yes, this is weird, and hopefully it’ll change so that we can all eat together sometime). I think that story about Gavin made me realize a little of why we have to wait on God sometimes. He hates his bottle cold, but waiting for it to get warmed up is hard. I wonder how often God makes us wait because the reward will be better in the end. He’s just heating it up. Twenty-eight seconds seems like an eternity to a two-year-old, and waiting patiently on God’s timing can seem just as long to us. I, as the adult doing the microwaving, know that it’ll only take 28 seconds, but Gavin doesn’t understand time the way I do. It’s the same thing with God. He knows exactly how long it’ll take until that thing I want is just right. I don’t know that because I can’t understand time the way that God does, so it may seem like that thing will never happen or never come, but God knows it’s only 28-seconds away.