Patience

I recently added a new note to the cork board on my wall to go along with my Shakespearian Insult Gum wrapper, that science quote that I wrote about, I Won't Watch business card, and ticket stub from the midnight showing of The Dark Knight (who's the mega-nerd now?)
Anyways, the note says "75-86-99." Aside from probably being alien code for something, this is a reminder to myself to be patient when it comes to God and His promises to me. That's a bit of a leap, so I'll explain.
You know that guy from the father Abraham song? He was really old when God told him that he would finally have a son. 75 to be more precise. His wife Sarah (also called Sarai) was really old too, so it seemed pretty unlikely that Abraham would ever be a father, never mind the father of many nations. Yet somehow, they believed.
Fast forward the tape about 11 years (starting to catch on here?) Abraham (or at this point, Abram) is getting tired of waiting. His wife still isn't pregnant, and, let's face it, he's not getting any younger. Abram begins to think to himself, God never specified who the mother would be; maybe it's not Sarah. So he (with his wife's permission) got Sarah's slave pregnant. That was not God's plan, but He still sticks with His promise to Abraham and Sarah.
When Abraham was 99 years old he finally saw God's plan start to come together. His wife was finally pregnant.
Now, even in this time when people were living longer than we do today, 14 years was a long time to wait for the fulfillment of a promise. A really long time. So today, as I'm anxious to graduate so that I can finally go to University and, even further in the future, become a professor, I need to be patient.
God will fulfill His plan for me, but not on my schedule, and honestly, that's probably a good thing.


 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
-James 4:13-15