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Waiting       [Psalms 130]         One of the shortcomings that I realized when I looked at myself is "impatience."   And because of my impatience, I think I sometimes hurt others with quick words and/or actions.   Moreover, I got things wrong because I was impatient.   In the midst of that, the word God gave me to meditate on was 2 Timothy 3:4 – “treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--.”   The Bible says when there will be terrible times in the last days (v. 1), people will be “rash” (v. 4).   Why do we get rash?   Why do we get impatient?   It seems that we become impatient when we fall into the thought that we can't wait any longer and almost at the same time we give up patience.   Then we do what we want.   This impatience leads to the inability to wait for God's will, creating wrong plans and methods, and eventually with terrible results.   Im...

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/faith-in-the-wilderness-of-waiting   Faith in the Wilderness of Waiting Article by  Scott Hubbard Editor, desiringGod.org Subscribe Apple Spotify Twenty-five years. Three hundred months. One thousand three hundred weeks. Nine thousand one hundred twenty-five days. That’s how long Abraham waited between hearing God’s promise and holding his son ( Genesis 12:4 ;  21:5 ). We can read Genesis 12–21 in one sitting. Abraham and Sarah lived it day by day, nine thousand mornings and more. Three times we’re told God appeared to Abraham to reaffirm his word ( Genesis 15:5 ;  17:16 ;  18:10 ). Otherwise, he and Sarah carried the past promise in a land of present silence, waiting with open hands and an empty womb. Abraham, “the father of us all” ( Romans 4:16 ), was a waiting man; his faith, a waiting faith. As his seventies turned to eighties turned to nineties, he waited. As he moved through Haran to Canaan to Egypt and back,...

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It is wise to wait ... "... it is wise to wait to be asked one's opinion rather than constantly volunteering advice."   (Jim Newhouse & Elyse Fitzpatrick,  "You Never Stop Being a Parent")