I Can’t Wait for Patience!

I Can't Wait for Patience! - BorrowedBlessings.net

Last night as we were vegging at home, Munchkin asked if he could have ice cream {I may have bribed him into helped him realize he should be eating all his dinner with a conditional offer of dessert}.  Ten seconds after he finished eating dinner, he wanted to cash in on the dessert offer.  I told him he could have ice cream, but he had to wait a few minutes.  As he was watching the book-turned-movie he had picked at the movie store, I was cleaning up from dinner and trying to accomplish a few things.  As I was doing this, he was asking for ice cream… every.two.seconds.  

I told him he could have ice cream but COME ON can I please get one thing done… justtttt one???  I kindly informed him that he needed to be patient and could have ice cream once he stopped asking for it.  He did really well… for a few minutes… long enough for me to get half of dinner cleared off the table.  A few short minutes later, though, he exclaimed “I CAN’T WAIT FOR PATIENCE!”.  I couldn’t help but to laugh.  

After explaining that patience means waiting, I got to thinking.  How often do we ask for something from God… but don’t let 2 minutes pass without nagging?  “Umm God I don’t see anything happening.  Are you doing anything?  Why hasn’t my prayer been answered yet?  God? Helllllooooo?”  Just imagine the frustration you would feel when receiving this from all of your followers rather than just the one I hear it from!  I don’t think I’d survive.  Seriously, though, I am super guilty of praying and then expecting big things to happen on my schedule the way I think they should happen.  Maybe if we quit nagging God to hurry up and get us some ice cream, he’d actually have the time to accomplish something!  Maybe if we were patient, God would have the time to remind us that his plans are SO much bigger and SO much greater than ours.  I, for one, can definitely relate to this sweet child’s exclamation of not being able to wait for patience.  Today, I’m going to try and just relish in what God can do when I sit down and shut up for a few minutes. 

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