Running to Jesus ~ Advent Day 3

Hope. We see it all through Scripture. But it’s not hope in ourselves or what we can do—it’s hope in the promises of the One who never lets us down. It’s Hope who came as a tiny baby, turning the Old Testament prophecies into realities and making a big, beautiful pile of fresh promises for us to cling to. Like the words in that burgundy Bible, those promises are true for every generation, and the Hope who holds them will never fail. ~ shereadstruth.com

400 years. 400 years. That is how many years that blank piece of paper represents between my Old Testament in my Bible and my New Testament. 400 years of dreams. 400 years of waiting. 400 years of praying. 400 years of births, weddings, laughing, working, loving and just living. 400 years of HOPE. 

I tend to forget that when I get impatient with my life. When I tend to want to move God faster in my life. I tend to forget how time really works in the reality of it all. I want to make time such a finite thing in my adult "mature" thinking. 

Yesterday while driving a the bus, two little kindergarten girls who sit together up front were not having a good day together. I couldn't move them. I kept reminding them that they only had to sit together for such a short period of time. Only about 15 minutes. To them, it was an eternity. For me, it felt like an eternity every time I heard "Kristina" as well. 

I wonder if that is how God feels with us. We plead "God" and come up with something of a whiney "blah, blah, blah" and then He looks at us and says "You've only got --- to hold on. Just be patient." 

So often, I am immature and like those little kindergarten girls. Who's got time for 400 years to wait? Then...then they had just a smidge over 30 years to wait till Jesus really started to teach and preach. Yet, I want it now. I have to remember that there is beauty in the waiting. Beauty in the prophecy of waiting. "Behold I will give you a sign." 

Just wait. For however long it takes. God's ways are perfect. God's ways are true. God's ways are forever just and mighty. He gives hope to the hopeless. He will never fail me. He will come through. Just be patient. Just wait. Even if I'm seated next to someone who is really bugging me. Because I am and always will be second.