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Yup, I tried to go to bed early and ended up taking a nap until 4 AM. You know what that means!!! Let's get introspective!
First off, I'm really proud of that title (see title). I thought of it about a week ago and I wasn't sure whether to turn it into a song or slip it in during a deep conversation, but I think it works perfectly as the title for this blog especially since it embodies a lot about what God has been teaching me the past couple of weeks.
For those of you who don't know, I am currently on the job market. This past week alone I've applied to 9 places and over this next week I plan to apply to 5 more. I sound pretty busy don't I? This searching for a job stuff is like a full-time job in itself. Except the pay is terrible. Like I couldn't even buy anything from the Dollar Store with it because it's that bad. As in the pay is less than a dollar. As in nothing. As in $0 and 0 cents (Idk how to make a "cent" symbol...). Anyway, I applied to a majority of these jobs last Friday and being the noob I am, went to bed expecting to receive at LEAST one job offer the following morning. I'm still waiting for that job offer.
This got me thinking (MMT). Why in the world do we wait? Why do we need patience? Had man not fallen, would there be waiting? Would we need patience in Heaven? It hardly seems that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent God would make us wait on things. I mean, He knows what we want, when we want it, why we want it, where we want, and how much we want, why not just give it to us? It would take all of an instant for Him to meet all of those desires. My job troubles? Shoont. I'd have been employed the minute I stepped out the door. My toast this morning? Woulda been toast as I got it out the BAG. My syrup for my waffle? Would probably still take forever to come out of the bottle (jkjkjkjk). I mean, what harm could come from instant gratification?
Well after hours of free time, I've determined one very good reason why patience is necessary.
A lot of the time I check-in to God's office with a sort of self-prescribed remedy to my situation. "Alright God, I've got this one thing right here I want you to check out that's been bothering me for while. It's not very big, but it bothers me when throughout the day and it would be great if you could just sign this prescription right here for me to get this better." If I could only have a car, or a job, or a girlfriend, or a puppy, I would feel great. My "sickness" would be better and I could go on with my life. The situation may sound familiar, and maybe not even that crazy, but how often do we check into a doctor's office and prescribe ourselves? Why would you even go to a doctor if you were going to do that? So why does it feel so normal to do that with God? After all, Jesus even admits God's doctor role in Mark 2:17. "On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Just like you go to the doctor with a physical body problem, it follows that you would go to a soul specialist for a soul problem. In other words, the guy who invented souls: God. When we go to God with a problem we need to accept HIS remedy. Not some cheap-bologna desire we have ever since we saw that one commercial. God made us. It only makes sense that he knows how we work. Or at the very least has a manual.
So what does this have to do with patience? Waiting is for patients. There's a super-old adage that says "Time heals all wounds" --by some super-old guy. We are a broken people, desperately trying to fix ourselves with home-made panaceas (BOOM vocab) and remedies. Unfortunately, we are not quite qualified to deal with soul problems. That's God's specialty. Soul problems require a special kind of surgery that only God can perform. If God granted us every single prescription we prescribed ourselves, we'd be wrecks! We'd be juiced up, beat in, strung out, high, whatever. Waiting for God's diagnosis and prescription is probably one of the most beneficial services we could do for ourselves. We wait because we are broken and do not know how to fix ourselves.
First off, I'm really proud of that title (see title). I thought of it about a week ago and I wasn't sure whether to turn it into a song or slip it in during a deep conversation, but I think it works perfectly as the title for this blog especially since it embodies a lot about what God has been teaching me the past couple of weeks.
For those of you who don't know, I am currently on the job market. This past week alone I've applied to 9 places and over this next week I plan to apply to 5 more. I sound pretty busy don't I? This searching for a job stuff is like a full-time job in itself. Except the pay is terrible. Like I couldn't even buy anything from the Dollar Store with it because it's that bad. As in the pay is less than a dollar. As in nothing. As in $0 and 0 cents (Idk how to make a "cent" symbol...). Anyway, I applied to a majority of these jobs last Friday and being the noob I am, went to bed expecting to receive at LEAST one job offer the following morning. I'm still waiting for that job offer.
This got me thinking (MMT). Why in the world do we wait? Why do we need patience? Had man not fallen, would there be waiting? Would we need patience in Heaven? It hardly seems that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent God would make us wait on things. I mean, He knows what we want, when we want it, why we want it, where we want, and how much we want, why not just give it to us? It would take all of an instant for Him to meet all of those desires. My job troubles? Shoont. I'd have been employed the minute I stepped out the door. My toast this morning? Woulda been toast as I got it out the BAG. My syrup for my waffle? Would probably still take forever to come out of the bottle (jkjkjkjk). I mean, what harm could come from instant gratification?
Well after hours of free time, I've determined one very good reason why patience is necessary.
A lot of the time I check-in to God's office with a sort of self-prescribed remedy to my situation. "Alright God, I've got this one thing right here I want you to check out that's been bothering me for while. It's not very big, but it bothers me when throughout the day and it would be great if you could just sign this prescription right here for me to get this better." If I could only have a car, or a job, or a girlfriend, or a puppy, I would feel great. My "sickness" would be better and I could go on with my life. The situation may sound familiar, and maybe not even that crazy, but how often do we check into a doctor's office and prescribe ourselves? Why would you even go to a doctor if you were going to do that? So why does it feel so normal to do that with God? After all, Jesus even admits God's doctor role in Mark 2:17. "On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Just like you go to the doctor with a physical body problem, it follows that you would go to a soul specialist for a soul problem. In other words, the guy who invented souls: God. When we go to God with a problem we need to accept HIS remedy. Not some cheap-bologna desire we have ever since we saw that one commercial. God made us. It only makes sense that he knows how we work. Or at the very least has a manual.
So what does this have to do with patience? Waiting is for patients. There's a super-old adage that says "Time heals all wounds" --by some super-old guy. We are a broken people, desperately trying to fix ourselves with home-made panaceas (BOOM vocab) and remedies. Unfortunately, we are not quite qualified to deal with soul problems. That's God's specialty. Soul problems require a special kind of surgery that only God can perform. If God granted us every single prescription we prescribed ourselves, we'd be wrecks! We'd be juiced up, beat in, strung out, high, whatever. Waiting for God's diagnosis and prescription is probably one of the most beneficial services we could do for ourselves. We wait because we are broken and do not know how to fix ourselves.
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Btdubs that's also just a random pic from sometime over college. I just wanted to share more mems :)
