I woke up at 3:30 this morning. Don’t feel bad, this was actually a good night, I hadn’t woken up multiple times before that like I had been doing recently, so this was pretty good.
As I’m still wearing my eye shield after surgery (last night), my eyes were finding it hard to adjust. I woke up with the intention of sending my girlfriend the devotion for the day so she has it to read whenever she’s up and ready to do her devotion. Normally I just send it to her and go back to bed. When I checked my email, something else caught my attention regarding my own personal question to God and I couldn’t ignore it, so I did what any impatient person did, flipped up my eye shield and started reading. I was in awe, because the topic was exactly on something I had asked God for throughout yesterday, and right before bed. I just smiled at the timely response.
Funny enough, the email I had originally gone looking for to send my friend wasn’t there, but as soon as I started reading my personal email, I heard a new email come in and knew that’s the one I was waiting for.
I’m also getting impatient with my eye shield to protect my eyes after surgery. I only have about another 2 hours of wearing it left, and when I initially got up, I debated whether to just take it off – after all, I already did almost my five nights. But the amount of time really isn’t the point, the point is how close I am to making my goal, but ready to give up. That’s the general issue I’m having. I’ve been waiting on God for something specific, I don’t see how it’s happening or not happening fast enough for me, and I’m ready to throw in the towel.
Are you waiting on God for something specific and can’t see how it’s working out? Don’t give up. This is a reminder to you and me, that He’s working, but you can’t give up, you have to keep holding on.
Dear Heavenly Father, please help my impatience. Help me to wait well while I wait on you and not to give up as I know that I am so close to the goal, even though I may not feel like it.
