Well, sometimes my prayer life feels like that buffering screen. I feel like my answered prayers in the past few months have left me at dead ends. I'm not sure if I should turn around or wait for God to open the door.
Just like in netflix when we see the buffering screen, we want to exit out and start again. Maybe even restart the computer or reboot the wifi. We try anything to make the waiting go away. However, the more we click the more that spinning wheel keeps on spinning.
Waiting is so hard that we try filling our life with other meaningless things. We try to forge a new path, our own path. Just think about Abraham, God promised him a son which already seemed impossible. I mean he wasn't getting any younger. The spinning color wheel kept spinning so he decided to beat down the dead end of the maze. He ended up with a son but because he did it his way instead of God's way, there was a lot of scars to be felt. I mean what do we expect! There is going to be more hurt and pain when we beat down a door instead of letting God open it in his time. For more on God's timing read
about how there is such thing as a good gift at a bad time.
I love to know God's plan and I love to be busy doing something. It's very hard for me to realize that sometimes God's plan is for me to wait and do nothing. I feel like I'm being sidelined to be a bench warmer, but in reality God is doing a new work.
Think about it, when the computer is buffering, it means it is working
so hard that you have to stop working so it can finish. It's the same thing with God.
Sometimes for him to do a deep work, I have to cease to work. Sometimes my business has to stop, for his to begin.
Isaiah 43:18-19: "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland"
