Recently, I find myself in a place where the predominant question that surrounds my spiritual life is “What do I do in the meantime?” When we read Psalm 27, an amazing Psalm by David that asks to ‘dwell in the house of the Lord’ (Psalm 27:4), the Psalm closes with perhaps one of the hardest activities to do as a Christian: ‘wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord’ (Psalm 27:14).
In a post-modern world, waiting is
something that is often unfamiliar to us as we become impatient at the traffic
lights, especially when they are red and we even opt to use ready meals as
opposed to enjoying the long process of preparing a meal. It becomes clear when
we study how we operate in the 21st Century the trait of patience and
waiting appears to be scarce.