Years ago photo booths used to be popular in stores and malls. You could slip inside the photo booth with a friend, or several friends, and get some quick pictures for a small price. You’d get inside the booth, close the curtain, get yourselves into position, and when you’re ready, insert the money to start to photographs.
SNAP! Change positions quickly and SNAP! Change once more and another SNAP! You move rapidly to a new pose and hear the final SNAP! Four poses and four pictures. Then comes the hard part. You step out of the booth to wait for that little strip of pictures to drop through the slot and into the wire pocket on the side of the booth.
Taking the photos is fun, but waiting those few minutes for the developing is so hard! It seems to take forever, but sooner or later you know the pictures will come through.
There are times in my life when the pace is moving rapidly and I’m ready to take on something new. Then I feel that God is telling me to wait. I want to keep moving forward before I forget what I want to accomplish or before the opportunity passes by, but God wants things to move a little slower. That’s not what I want because I just want to do things while I can.
Throughout my life I learned some hard lessons that in those times when God chooses to not answer my prayers right away in my own timing, I need to take the focus off of my agenda and simply focus on Him. This is when I know that He loves and cares for me and I trust that He will care for me in His timing as He knows what is best.
God is faithful, and I know this. Because he is faithful I can wait and know that when His timing comes, all things will work out according to His plan.
Father, when I’m inpatient and having a hard time waiting on you, please help me to realize that you are faithful and that you are completely in control.
Ann Shorb is a counselor and the founder of CCES. She works with a wide variety of clients and provides Christian counseling services for many different issues.
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