Waiting. We are accustomed to seeing it as a negative thing. If we have to wait in a line, if we have to wait more than a minute at the drive-through window for our meal, if we have to wait for our smart-phone to load the page or the video we want. We want everything faster: food, internet, service, information, traffic, etc. If we bring this attitude to our prayer life, however, the only thing that will happen quickly will be our descent into disillusionment. God gives us lots of time to wait, not for passive waiting, but active waiting. He gives us time to long, to seek, to channel our desires through the purifying light of conversation with God. What is most important in the process is not the fulfilment of desire but the transformation of desire. We cause ourselves a lot of frustration and misery by seeking things that do not really fulfil our heart’s desires. God wants to cultivate within us rightly oriented desires. He wants us to desire what will really give us joy, and that is fellowship with him. It is only in the context of this relationship that all other things find their place and can be enjoyed for what they are. Seeking and longing is a way of exercising and cultivating rightly oriented desires. If we bend our hearts towards God with constancy, then this will eventually become the ‘bent’ of our hearts. So, bend your heart towards God and seek to know him more. Long to walk with him in greater intimacy. Jesus Christ came to make this possible and God will delight in fulfilling this desire.
Seek God.
Read Psalm 130.
