Are we too quick to demand instant attention or success?

Think about this for a moment and ask yourself are you really a patient person? Today we are pretty much conditioned to think in terms of almost instant gratification. Sad but true for many of us. These days we are a generation of lunch time face lifts and demanding a response by text messaging. Time just won’t give us time it seems. As humans in today’s society we just hate having to wait…and I pretty much mean anything! Since childhood we demand. But our demands just become greater as we reach adulthood and mature.

It is today’s human nature…

Think long and hard now. When was the last time you really had to wait for anything to arrive by “snail mail”? Or what about stand in a check out queue? We hate it don’t we?

This is where we have it all wrong. Our instant demands and impatience create stress and agony for us all. We expect anything that God initiates through us to be completed…and usually quickly! Plus to top it all we want to be around to see the positive result!

That is why as humans we hate not seeing an end result. Despite our hard work and sacrifices. As humans we demand success and learning. To better ourselves and be able to pat ourselves on our backs for our hard work, efforts and determination.

But sometimes God decides to continue our hard work through others, perhaps another person or even another generation! That just sucks to us as humans, right? But hold on, nothing in life is ever straight forward. And that is how at times God works.

When God reveals something to us, it’s usually within the framework of something that has already taken place before you came onto the scene. Think of Moses. God told Moses, “I am the God of your father…of Abraham…Isaac, and Jacob.”

Remember that God had made promises to Moses’s forefathers hundreds of years earlier. But now it was Moses’s turn to take his place in the plan of God.

Accept that at times we are just a small link in a long chain. This can be for many of us humbling and at times disappointing. But we all have our acts to play in God’s little theatre play. As for Moses, once he understood this fact he was able to focus on something “bigger than himself.”

It isn’t important who does the planting and who does the watering. What is important is that by efforts and God’s grace the seed grows. The one who plants and the one who waters are actually working together with the same purpose. Both will be rewarded for their hard work.

So next time you become impatient or eager to succeed, remember this little story. You will be surprised at what you can actually accomplish when you are not so focused on who it is who carries the torch over that finishing line…