Year Seventeen
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I can’t say for certain, but I’d have to guess that today, as humans, we’re less patient than we’ve ever been.
Back in ancient times, we have examples in the Gospel of people who had to endure. The woman bent over for 18 years. The man lame for 38 years at the pool of Bethesda. The man born blind.
Trials over a long period of time are nothing new.
We have our daily crosses. And sometimes those daily crosses become monthly crosses. Then yearly crosses. Sometimes even longer.
Here’s what I’m learning: that doesn’t mean things have changed or that God has abandoned us.
The woman was still bent over on year 17. The lame man was still waiting on day 13,870. The blind man woke up in darkness again and again and again.
And then Jesus showed up.
Not on their timeline. On His.
As with all things, it’s in His way, in His time. That’s not a cop-out or a platitude. It’s the reality we have to live in. The cross we carry today might be the same one we carry tomorrow. And the day after that.
But it doesn’t mean He’s not coming.
It just means He’s not done with us yet.