It's Good Friday and I'm thinking about waiting. As Christians around the globe celebrate a risen Savior, often-heard phrases are "waiting for His soon return" or "awaiting the risen Savior". Well I don't want to wait. Waiting is wasted time. Waiting makes people cranky. Have you ever known anyone who likes to wait? When you look around the doctor's office waiting room - do people look happy? or in line at the grocery store, or at the bus stop/train station? No, most people are looking at their watches, impatiently shifting around. Sometimes if the wait is too long, complaints might be made and voices raised.
No, I don't want to just "wait." The wait for Christ's return has been longer than anyone could have imagined. We don't know how long we'll be waiting. We can hope it won't be much longer, but we don't know. And I for one don't want to spend that time being cranky and impatient. I'd rather be serving, singing, praising, anticipating, sharing until Christ's return.
I'll be honest - sometimes doubting creeps in there - but mainly when the focus is on the waiting. If the focus is on the waiting and it seems to be taking too long - that's when the doubting happens. Complaining is a companion of doubting. [This is true of almost anything in life]. No one on this earth is perfect - so I've been a doubter, complainer, cranky-pants in the past - and I'm sure I'll have moments of that in the future, too. We all do (or at least most of us). But with God's help, I want to spend most of my time until Christ's return doing, giving, loving, sharing, enjoying, praising, singing, hoping, and anticipating. See you there.
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