Mark Jones – In His Dust

I think it’s fair to say, that sometimes I can be very impatient. Which probably isn’t a good thing. I tend to run into things straight away.

Take paintball for example (or even battlefield 2). As much as there’s in some situations benefit in ‘rapid aggressive pushing forward’, a lot of the time… we came out better when our team sat back a little, and watched the other team struggle to move anywhere… or rather, my team came out better, cause I was already ‘dead’. Sometimes, we have to play what I like to call ‘the waiting game’. And sometimes the waiting game SUCKS.

Ok… maybe that wasn’t a good example. But I’m in a few situations right now, where I’m playing the ‘waiting game’. Sometimes it’s infuriating. I want what I want, and I want it now. I sound like a little kid.

There’s things I really want. There’s decisions I’m waiting on making. And I have to wait, when there’s a huge part of me that wants to rush in, I realize how it can show the importance and how much I value something if I can wait for it. The victory at paintball when we played defence – we waited- rather than rushing in.

Part of it is in trusting God too. I trust that he knows what’s best for me, as do all fathers… even if I have to wait for the decision… I trust that if the result Isn’t what I want – God has good reasons for it, and if I do get what I want… it’s been well worth the wait.