Waiting Quietly (My new Reality Series)

“it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” 

Lamentations 3:26

Patience is a virtue! I really admire patient people from a distance. I keep that separation of space so as not to try or test them in this most admirable quality! In fact, I believe I will get a heavenly reward for giving them space.

I love the thought of being patient. But “quiet” patience is probably too much for this human frame. While in the Waiting Room of Life, I have found that I just have to ask the person next to me what they are “in for” and then tell them about the "eternity" I have so patiently endured in that same room. It’s the kind of waiting room where no matter the wall color, it is always drab and has posted in it:

DO NOT GET EXCITED OR OVERLY HOPEFUL,

YOU ARE IN THE LAND OF NOT YET.

PLEASE RESPECT OTHERS AND BE QUIET!

But the room begs for noise. It invites someone to get so loud for so long, that someone will give in and get you out! The reason for this is that while waiting, you imagine you have surely been forgotten and a signal fire and beacon should bring relief right away. Yes, make enough noise and they will escort you out.  Not the “out” you expected, mind you, but simply moved into a smaller holding tank with hard, cold, metal chairs and magazines that nobody reads.

There you will have to change into their version of a fig leaf, and you will be asked again to wait quietly alone. With this, you have been fooled! Now that you are by yourself, they will know you are the one drumming on every hard object in the room and making those loud sighing noises. You will be moved to an even more secluded “facility”.

Not so with our wait! If we will wait quietly, we will be able to hear His voice and know we have not been forgotten. If we know that He is aware, we will continue to wait quietly with assurance of His salvation. No signal flares need to be shot into the sky; His spotlights of love and mercy already beam down upon us. It is good to wait quietly!