One of the things you quickly learn about travelling, especially if it includes planes, is hurry up and wait. You’re always racing to a check-in counter, security checkpoint, or gate, and then waiting. It can be frustrating as you rush and then wait, only to rush and wait again. You soon learn there isn’t a shortcut. There isn’t a way to make it go faster. There isn’t a way to skip the wait. The sooner you accept this, the more peaceful your travel is. Our journey through life can feel a lot like this too. We race toward a goal only to be forced to wait, over and over again. We can get frustrated or anxious as we are made to wait. But when we learn that our life’s timing is not in our hands, but God’s hands, our whole perspective changes. David learned this. He was anointed by God to be king, yet he spent years running and hiding for his life. God seemed to hurriedly anoint him as a young man, but it was 10 to 15 years later that he became king. Yet David wrote, “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD” (Psalms 27:14). Your life may feel like hurry up and wait, but everything changes when you let go to God and trust his timing. (Craig Blewett) Open Bible – https://bit.ly/Psa26v13-14
