Look
down the road. There are too many smart and gorgeous people who can catch one’s
attention. But what if, out of seven billion people in the whole world today,
you can now bravely say: ‘this one is for me’. Indeed, it is an ultimate point
where reality is finally better than any wildest dream!
Unfortunately,
waiting is not a game as some people think. It is a serious pause. It is real.
For it is incorporated by our precious time. It is embedded that before someone
joyfully receives something he or she must wait patiently. The longer the time
we endure, the more we value the day it arrives. We just must switch our mind
from being rush and hurry to being still and silent so to consider that our
time is in His hands. The joy of receiving depends on one’s patience. The
amount of joy that will occur in our receiving can be measured by the height of
trust we invest in our waiting.
One
very good professor and an author of the book “True Love Weds”, Prof. GraceGaston-Dousel wholeheartedly shares her experience in waiting and finding Mr.
Right. She sweetly wrote: “I just knew when the right person came at the right
time.”[1]
After many years of waiting, her first boyfriend and afterwards became her
husband arrived at a time when God knew that they are ready. She was overjoyed when the answer to her prayers
arrived. It motivates her to write books that encourage young ones to wait and
expect more from God until the wedding bells sound. What she shared is possible, if one has applied the discipline of patience and willfully endures waiting.
The arrival of this important person is like a treasure from heaven.
If a
single person is longing for the grand entrance of Mr. or Ms. Right at the
doorstep. How much more to God? He is absolutely longing for a genuine smile
from our face. A smile that illuminates joy that comes from the inside - the
product of our patience. A smile in
which accompanies a heart pounding statement: “Finally, it happens to me!”
In
road signs, stop lights are not always in green lights, we have to be alert
when the red light promptly flashes. It is the time to step into the break and
give way for the other lanes. Most drivers and even passengers anticipate for
the stunning green light. This signals an opportunity is on our way, a chance
to cross and enter to the next path. Likewise, in courtship, everyone must be
attentive for every opportunity that opens. Bear in mind that we are not always
stock in red lights. Singles are usually in front of the yellow lights. Sooner
or later, green will extremely shine.
Okay look, try to pause and imagine
these scenes; the traffic enforcer announces go, the arrival of bus at the terminal,
the on boarding of passengers, the final scene of the longest telenovela, a graduation song echoes in
school auditorium, the proclamation of winner, and finally she say yes to him. Every scene tells one thing.
Waiting is over. It appears that the
most awaited and glitter coated prize is at hand. Those who joyfully find a
treasure are those who have acknowledged the decent order of God in all
undertakings.
The
author of the book “There’s Dynamite in Praise” Don Gosset explains this in the
light of worship; “Man’s order in religious worship may be ceremonial,
ritualistic, and formal. But God’s order is dignity, life and liberty”.[2]
It can also be applied here, God designed order for courtship. Hence, again we
are not advised to rush the schedule. Just get on the mark, for Jesus has
prepared the way. There is always a chance of winning if we strictly follow
each proceeding.
The
Lord is true when He says: “Heaven and Earth will pass away, but My words will
never pass away (Matt. 24:35 NIV).” Literally, His words encompass His
teachings, commands, and law. It is also included the right attitude and
perspective in waiting and finding for His perfect will in each person’s life.
The will of God for each of His children is to receive the best out of waiting
and cooperation with Him. When the Lord gives something, treasure it, nurture
it. All things in this world will surely pass away, count in this
well-treasured romantic relationship, but if a single person waited for God’s
will in his or her life. Death is the only point to formally be separated to
the other. Life time spent with the right person is truly an infinite treasure which nothing can ever
compare.FINALLY....
“In patience possess your souls.” “Ye have
need of patience.” “Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire…”[3] a
revelation of God to Andrew Murray in his book ‘Waiting on God’. All the
exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and praying, our willing and
doing, have their very great value. But they can go no farther than this, which
they point the way and prepare us in humility to look to and depend alone upon
God Himself, and patience to wait. [4]
We
must have to joyfully and willingly dig deeper to win the Treasure that is certainly ours. When the Lord gives, no one could
ever take away. When the Lord made the way, no one can block or can destroy it anyway. That is why it is called Infinite Treasure. The infinite God is the one
who gives, and only in His knowledge and unlimited power can this treasure
lasts. God is strategic and supernatural. Blessed are those who believe for there shall be fulfillment of those things which the Lord has revealed. A love story that is written and directed by God is indeed a treasure that
lives forever.
[1] Grace Gaston-Dousel, True Love Weds
(Philippines: Church Strengthening Ministry, 2005), 56
[2]
Don Gosset, There’s Dynamite in
Praise (Pennsylvania: Whitaker House Inc., 1974), 3
[3] Andrew Murray, Waiting On God (Chicago: Moody Press, 1895), 57
[4] Ibid, 57.
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