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GOOD FRIDAY - A LESSON IN PATIENCE

4/5/2012

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Empty tomb near Jerusalem with stone rolled away.
Patience.
I don’t have this virtue. 
I try.
I strive.
I fail.

I’m horrible at waiting. I can’t wait until the chocolate chip cookies come out of the oven, so I eat spoonfuls of dough. I can’t wait until the Snow Patrol concert, so I keep pulling out my tickets. I can’t wait until Good Friday to post this blog, so I’m posting on Thursday. If I’ve emailed you in the past day, you can be sure I’m checking my inbox for your reply. I can’t even wait until tomorrow morning’s coffee – dark roast with a shot of mocha – mmm.

2014 years ago on this day the disciples also failed in the patience department. All they could see and feel was the humility and the devastation of their Lord being painfully and shamefully executed. They felt angry and lonely and hopeless.  They locked themselves in a dark room afraid to go out, fearful of what would happen next.

Just around the corner was everything and more than they could have ever imagined. But the disciples couldn’t see it through all the darkness. 

In just a couple of days they would see their Lord in all His glory. They would learn Jesus did not desert them, that He would never desert them or me or you. Instead, Jesus had forgiven the disciples, and all of us, our sins. He wasn’t leaving the disciples or us, but going ahead to make a place for us in heaven. But on Good Friday, the first Good Friday, that was incomprehensible.

The disciples needed faith, to remember His promises, and the patience to let them unfurl. So do I.

I’m plenty impatient about the little things. But, when I really want change in my life, when I’m over the top flustered or disgruntled or itching for things to be different, or am consumed with anticipation and excitement … this is when I truly need to be patient – to hang in there. Because just like Jesus had a glorious surprise for the disciples, there’s something just around the corner waiting for me, something amazing beyond my wildest dreams. And for you, there is something over the next hill that will blow you away. We just need to be patient.

For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 1 Corinthians 13: 12 NIV

What are you waiting for today?

2 Comments
Amber
4/17/2014 06:34:38 am

AMEN!!

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Laura Smith link
4/17/2014 07:35:22 am

You don't know anything about having to wait, do you, Amber? Can't wait to see what God has in store for you!

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