When a Patient Isn't
Theme of the Week: Marking Time?
Sunday, June 8, 2003
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Key Bible Verse: The Lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him. So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord (Lamentations 3:25-26). Bonus Reading:Psalm 69:1-3, 32-33
How good are you at waiting? Here's a pop quiz, using scenarios of a couple of fairly casual kinds of waiting. Think how you'd respond.
First scenario. You're at a tollbooth. The driver in front of you is having an extended conversation with the tollbooth operator.
A: You're happy that they're doing the tollbooth in community. You think about forming a small group—with you and the other driver and the tollbooth operator.
B: You think of things you'd like to say to the tollbooth operator. Invite him to your church picnic perhaps.
C: You attempt driving your car between the other person's car and the tollbooth.
Second scenario. You've been sitting in the waiting room of your doctor's office for an hour.
A: You're grateful for the chance to catch up on the 1993 Reader's Digest.
B: To empty the waiting room, you tell the other patients you have a highly contagious and fatal disease.
C: You force yourself to hyperventilate to get immediate attention.
—John Ortberg in Preaching Today
Adapted from Preaching Today by permission.
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord, I trust You to act when the time is right. Give me the discipline to wait for Your time.
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