Still Waiting!

I hope that you read my blog for May 12, "Just Wait!" In case you did I thought that I should give some updates on what has happened in the past 22 days. (1) We are still waiting for our air conditioning service. That will come, hopefully, on June 28. Of course we are on a "waiting" list in case any earlier openings develop. Do I think that will happen? That has just about as much chance of happening as it does of snowing here on July 4. Or in probability terms - 0! (2) How about our plumber? We are still "patiently" waiting - for two months now. Despite three phone calls it is still "probably next week". It's good we don't have a broken pipe or we'd now have a gigantic swimming pool in our basement. (3) But there is a success - last week our tree trimmer did return to pick up the remaining limbs - it just took him a month and a half to return. (4) Our two new pine trees? We are still waiting - if they come by Christmas we can decorate them. (5) Our mulch - still waiting - hopefully before winter. (6) Our tombstone? Promised in April - still not done. But we aren't in a hurry for that yet. And if the rapture happens first, we won't pay the other half of the bill. (7) The Awana survey forms? The good news is that 10 have since been returned. The bad news is that we are still waiting for 21 others. The deadline was May 8. Oh well, they are volunteers. (8) Doctor appointments. Dianne will finally have one with the specialist next week. But in trying to make another appointment with a specialist she has been told that she will be placed on their September schedule and they will call when they have a date. (9) And then there is the May 20 predicted rapture. I'm still here, are you? But I am looking for that special day as believers have for thousands of years and only God knows when it will happen. But while I get impatient with those companies and workers that can't get around to doing the work that I will pay them to do, I do know that it is an important spiritual principle to learn to wait on the Lord. I think David must have learned this principle because he talks about waiting on the Lord so often throughout the Psalms. Meditate upon some of his thoughts as you read the following. Psalm 25:5 "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." Psalm 25:21 "Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee." Psalm 27:14 "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." Psalm 33:20 "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield." Psalm 40:1 "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." Psalm 62:1 "Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation."