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Caught In a Moment

By Ryan, February 14, 2007

This morning, I was tired. In fact, I was very tired. I looked at the clock and found comfort in the fact that it was 5:50, a full 55 minutes before I like to be up. Well, you know how it goes. 10 minutes go by. Naw, the bed is too nice and warm. Another 20 go by. You know, I have no obligation to get up yet. Lather, rinse, repeat until it’s 6:45. I’m sitting in bed listening to the radio station that my clock faithfully wakes me up to every morning, and I just don’t wanna get up. So I sit for a few more minutes. It’s 7:00 under God*. My dad sticks his shiny head through my door and tells me to get up.

Well, I’ll spoil the ending and just tell you now that I eventually got up at 7:20, leaving myself about 20 minutes to shower, dress, eat, and gather everything and go. I’ll say it plainly: I did not plan for the future very well.

Now I know you can relate to this if you’re over the age of about 10. Honestly, we all have our days where we just don’t wanna get up yet. During those 90 minutes or so that I couldn’t decide whether or not to get up, my mindset was one that I can stay in bed for one more minute and it won’t hurt anything. I was focused on “right now the bed is warm and comfortable” rather than “if I don’t get up I might make my brothers late for school.” Very short-term.

Lying in bed at 7 AM is not the only real-world instance of being focused on short-term. I, along with many friends of mine, are frequently under the mindset that God answers prayer immediately. It took me several months of prayer to discover that I don’t need a girlfriend. It took three years of prayer to find a remote answer as to why I live in Texas and not in Oklahoma. And if that isn’t enough, I heard a testimony from a world-famous violin player who prayed for a Bible... for 25 years. Look, if God can wait a quarter of a century to give someone His very own Word, He doesn’t have any obligation to answer every other prayer right away.

So don’t worry too much about the here and now, because it may turn out that what we want isn’t what God wants for us. It’s still okay to ask, but don’t be impatient. Impatience causes depression. Trust me.

This post was inspired by a post on Casual Fridays.

Labels: Challenges, Gems, Influences

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 Anonymous:

"Shiny" ?!!

 Ryan:

Hey, from my angle, all the lights wrapped around my bedpost reflect off that head.

In Dad’s defense, most of the missing hairs are my fault alone.

 Ryan:

Another instance of impatience... my “real” driver’s license (as opposed to the paper one) came in the mail yesterday, a full 6 days after I was supposed to get it. I got kinda impatient there...

 Kristin:

I could see why. I would to.. And yes impatient does cause depresstion im kinda going through it now. Don't really want to bring up why...

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