Waitng

Waiting, I think all my life I had been waiting for someone or for something. Years ago when I was a student I am what you called early bird. I had been punctual in most of my student life. I came to school early when we have an activity (group work project etc). I always been on time or rather earlier than the call time even though I know the fact that not all of them will come on time. So the result I wait, I wait until they come. Yesterday, was another day of waiting time for me. Thursday night I apply online for a certain job, I was expecting that they will contact me the next day. I put my cellphone in front of me to make sure that  I won't missed there call if ever they will contact me, office hours had passed but they didn't contact me. I was really so disappointed, depressed and sad. Just an hour ago when I open my mail, I got a reply from them. I should have opened my mail earlier because they send it early this morning. Seeing there reply make me teary eye. There are even times that I get emotional when waiting. I remember when one of my classmate borrow a book from me. She's the one who needed something right? but I'm still were the one who is waiting for her at our rendezvous. That's when I get emotional and it entered my mind that I had been waiting for my entire life. I asked myself if there would come a time that there would be someone who will be waiting for me instead of me waiting for them. Then I remember that there are two person who always wait for me. My papa would always wait for me outside the school gate whenever I had an evening class. Imagine my class end at 9:00 pm. My papa would leave the house at 7:30 pm and arrived at school around 8 pm. He would wait for me for an hour, it's good if the professor would dismissed us early but imagine our class starts at 7:30 and usually professor would arrived at 8. So normally if that would be the case we start class at 8. We were just starting with our class but my papa was down there outside the gate standing and waiting for me.I told him many times that he does not need to leave home early but he replied that's it's alright for him to wait, better early than late. The other person who is always waiting for me on the other side, who is the most patient person I know, it's none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is waiting for more than 2,000 years for all of us to turn to Him, to accept Him as our personal savior but sadly until now He's still waiting. When we go astray Christ is patiently waiting for us to return to Him. When we become stubborn and want to do things our way, He patiently wait for us to turn to Him, to come to Him, to acknowledge Him and to accepts He's purpose for us.  Whenever I got depressed, sad, angry while waiting I pray to God, telling Him what I feels. Sometimes waiting gets tiring, I felt the same also most of the time, but if we patiently wait for God to answer our prayer and not to rush things up we will see how wonderful and amazing things would be. I'm not saying that I'm expert when it comes to waiting, in fact I'am not. I always got impatient but God still patiently guide me and teach me to be patient. I would like to share a preaching from our church entitled "Season of waiting". It's very inspiring but I haven't time to edit it but I'll post it here if I finished it. So for the meantime watch this music video "While I'm waiting " by John Waller

- 陳錦錦