Sound of Surviving Blog

Do you ever feel like your life is like a waiting room? Like you’re a patient in a doctor’s office who’s been waiting in the doctor’s office for hours on end? Does it ever feel like you’re always the last “patient” in there at the end of each day?  We’re all waiting for problems to go away, for God to heal us, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. But it also feels like God keeps us in waiting for other things too, like the right job, or the right house or apartment, for the right partner. Because when we see everyone else seem like they’ve got everything all together, we want it too. It doesn’t seem fair that they have everything all together, but we don’t even have one of those things lined up. Every job interview you go on where no one calls you back, every apartment or house you look at, but is too highly priced, every person you meet that you think you can see yourself with, and then the relationship doesn’t work out, or every time you think your pain has gone away, it comes back, worse than ever. These are all examples of being in God’s waiting room. It might seem like the worst possible outcomes, but they’re not.  Our “great doctor of all things,” God, is putting things in place to help us find “the right cure.” But that’s the beauty of being in God’s waiting room, because once we do find the right job, person, place, or treatment, we can appreciate it so much more, because we remember all of the attempts we tried before, that didn’t work out. And we are so relieved, because where we are at right now is exactly where God intended for us to be. And that goes for being in his waiting room, too. Appreciate being in the waiting room, appreciate the fact that we even have one to go to. After all, if we are there, it’s because God is still working on that cure for us. His timing is perfect, and it never fails.