Wait for it . . .wait for it . . .!!!

      About a week ago I took my 3-year-old granddaughter, Minley, to Trader Joe’s.  At at the check-out counter, the clerk gave her the world’s cheapest, best toy, which I call the “wait-for-it” toy.  It is a 1” diameter green rubber “cup” which you turn inside out, place on a surface, and wait for it to pop up.  It is always a surprise and causes great delight because you are never sure just when it will pop up!

We seemed to be long in the “wait-for-it” stage, as far as finding out when we would actually leave for Niger.  But it caused me to think about all the people in the Bible who had to wait for something, which was followed by a wonderful blessing from God. Of course Joseph comes to mind first . . . and the people wandering through the desert for forty years . . . Abraham and Sarah for Isaac . . . Jacob for Rachel, and Rachel for Joseph . . . Paul in prison . . . Jesus' counsel to the disciples to “wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit” . . . and God, Himself is waiting patiently for all to have a chance to believe!  Romans 8:25 gives the position for all believers - “But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.’  So . . . we have been patiently waiting on several levels . . .