BEING WAITLISTED
We’re being handed pagers, buzzers, expected to watch screens and boards for updates, asked to talk to robots, and being asked by a robot, if we are a robot.
After that, if you’re lucky, you might get put in a que, and told that you are NOT their priority. There are at least 215 people more important than you, and you’re number 216.
However, if you don’t want to wait, we can call YOU back, within 137 minutes to 6 days.
It seems like everywhere you turn these days; someone has some sort of a waitlist that they are putting us on.
If you call a business, quite often they will waitlist you before addressing your call.
When you go out to eat at a nice restaurant, they could easily say a 2 hour wait.
Or even if just want something quick and easy, like take-out food, you still gotta get in line, get put on hold, or waitlisted.
The doctor, dentist, hospital, DMV, airports, grocery stores, retail stores, theaters, all make you wait.
You mean to tell me; I can’t even use the restroom or have fun without waiting in a line! Yep!
And am I the only one, who feels like sometimes even our prayers get waitlisted?
When I first came to know about God, it seemed like my prayers were being answered immediately. By the time I finished praying, he had already done it.
Then, as time went on, it seemed like I was waiting longer, and longer, for my prayers to be answered. Perhaps you can identify with me?
What had previously taken a few minuets, was now taking years to complete.
Minutes turn to days, days turned to months, and months turned to decades.
It seemed to take longer and longer to get an answer. Sometimes there was no answer at all.
It felt like, being waitlisted all over again.
One possibility for the wait might be the complexity of the prayers had increased.
When we were new in this, it was Lord please just give me an opportunity to tell someone how good you are.
Then it became, Lord I need 3 cars, a house, and a mate, by the end of next week.
This kind of reminds me of my grandmothers cooking.
She could prepare a sandwich relatively quickly, but a full meal, was a completely different story.
She had to wash the green beans thoroughly, before she meticulously snapped each of them, one by one. Don’t even think about mentioning canned goods!
Then she had to get out all the ingredients to make the cornbread. Eggs had to cracked, fresh cornmeal, butter, sugar, salt, all had to be to hand mixed together to perfection.
Then of course, the chicken had to be washed, cleaned, cut up, and seasoned, long before she could fry it in a pan to a golden crisp.
Potatoes had to be peeled, and so on, and so on.
A lot goes into a personalized home cooked meal.
Everything good, takes a while to prepare. Maybe it’s the same way with God.
His word says, “No good thing will I hold back from those who love me”
This tells me, that God cooks only the good stuff for us. So, it’s gonna be a minute.
God cooked almost everyone’s blessings in the Old Testament, slow and thorough, just like my grandmother.
There is some reference to wait or waiting, mentioned in 26 out of the 39 books in the Old Testament, and 13 out of the 27 books in the New Testament.
This means that all 12 tribes of Israel, Joshua, Samuel, Hosea, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, David, Abraham, Nehemiah. Job, Elijah, Isaiah, Ezra, Zechariah, Daniel, Jesus, and all his disciples, and countless other believers, all had to wait on God to do his thing.
Odds are pretty good that were going to have to wait also. #Waitlisted
You might have noticed there are a lot of spiritual giants on the wait list.
Let’s look at how a few of them handled being waitlisted.
Elijah wanted to show everyone that God would send down fire from heaven to burn water. So, he prayed while being waitlisted. 1Kings 18
Paul was wrongly imprisoned and looked for God to deliver him. He and Silas sang while they were being waitlisted. Acts 16
Daniel prayed and got no answer at all. He wondered why he got waitlisted. Some of us are right there with Brother Daniel, waiting and wondering.
Sometimes, like Daniel we too must wait for reinforcements to come, because the enemy has seen our future long before we did. Daniel 10
God placed Habakkuk as the watchman over a whole nation. Yet he too was waitlisted. Despite the time, he waited with expectancy for God. Habakkuk 1
Let’s review. One prayed, one praised, one got no answer at all initially.
But like Habakkuk, they all waited with an expectant heart.
Waiting is a position, just like standing, kneeling, and running, are positions.
We stand with our legs locked in position, to be upright as to see Gods glory.
We kneel with legs bent, as we prepare to lie prostrate before the almighty God.
We run, with our legs moving like we are stomping with praise for the things that God has already done for us.
And we wait, with a heart of expectancy, believing that soon we shall reap if we faint not.
If you've prayed and asked God for answers but find yourself waiting longer than you planned, take a moment now to thank Him in advance for His answer.
Trust that He is working everything out behind the scenes on our behalf.
Don't give up, but look up, with hope and expectancy believing to see Him respond.
Remember, No good thing will he withhold from those who love him.
Lord, we thank You for remaining faithful to us. Help us to have hope and expectancy as we wait for Your answers to our prayers. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
This is a Thompson Truth
