Opus 2025-072: The Waiting God

This morning I first greeted God at 4:15 when I woke up enough to engage my mind a little bit.  Then I rolled over and eventually got out of bed around 4:30, stumbled toward the kitchen to start the coffee and went to powder my nose.  It was 5 o’clock before I was ready to again greet Him with my second, “Good morning, Lord.”  I again have Him in my mind, leaning over the banister, tilting His head and smiling at me.

My first thought was He was waiting for me.  He knew how long it takes me to wake up and He knew my heart was in the right place.  All was good.  It dawned on me that He wasn’t really waiting.  Not waiting in the sense of twiddling His thumbs, or looking out the window, or reading a magazine.  First, God is outside time so He didn’t have to sit there wasting it.  Second, He has a million things to do and He is doing them.  It’s more like your father working on the taxes, knowing that you have just come home from school and that you will arrive in a few minutes to share your day and any issues that have come up.  He knows you’re there.  He knows you’re coming.  He’s waiting in a sense but certainly not wasting time.

It always strikes me as funny that we pray that God would meet us when He’s already there.  We pray that God would hear our prayers, when we know He’s already listening, and He’s not hard of hearing.  It’s more a matter of us, finally getting our mind focused and our petty details set aside so that we can approach him and give him our attention.

God was waiting for me.  I trust that He was waiting for you this morning.  Be blessed, trust, move forward with anticipation.

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