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When it comes to the things of God, I am impatient.

While I am certainly not immune to this problem in other realms, I am not particularly plagued with it.

Except when it comes to God.

I grow so weary of waiting for God to fulfill His promise to transform me into the image of Jesus:

I want to quit fighting my pride and my anger and my jealousy.

I want to stop saying the wrong thing to my husband, yelling at my children, hiding from others out of fear.

I am easily frustrated when God is not maturing the hearts of my children as quickly as I might wish.

When they do not mature in the way and at the speed I think best, I grow anxious and worried, even irritated.

I am in a hurry for some that I love to decide to pursue God wholeheartedly rather than to continue on lukewarmly.

I often want to “fix” things, to see signs of “progress” before continuing on the path to which I believe God has called me.

I recently read a phrase that has hushed me like a child. Teilhard de Chardin writes of trusting in “the slow work of God”.

The slow work of God.

The very words soothe my spirit, calm my impatience.

Ours is a God who waits. Who are we not to? It takes what it takes for the great turnaround. Wait for it. ~ Gregory Boyle in Tattoos on the Heart

Who am I that I should be the one who hurries God? Who am I that I should get to skip past the waiting?

Am I better than Moses, waiting for forty years in Midian? Am I more privileged than David, waiting for fifteen years to fulfill his anointing?

Ours is a God who waits. Who am I not to?

In my impatience, I could easily abandon the slow work of God.

God forbid that I should miss any work of His.

Especially the slow kind.

Wait for it.

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