Delayed gratification was built into the universe. As God created wonder after wonder through order and called it good, He was preparing for His ultimate creation. His creativity flowed from day to day gaining momentum until he finally created His masterpiece; the man made in His image. The man took shape, and God, filled with gratification called him very good. It was so good that He stopped creating and enjoyed what had been accomplished. This delay is built into the infrastructure of nature. A seed grows overtime into vegetation, blossom and canopy. Mamals wait months to years to bare offspring. Infants become children, then adolescents and move into adulthood in orderly fashion. The monarch butterfly takes four generations to complete migration. Oh the misfortune befallen to humans as the serpent lured them into a false sense of ease. From that point on, the human mind required the world to move ever faster. The divine momentum once used to create them shattered and flung like shards of glass. Humanity continues to strive to unstoppable excelleration while God, as he has done in multiplicity pulls humanity toward Him. Noah spent greater than fifty years on the ark, Moses spent forty years in the wilderness before the great exodus after which He spent another forty years with the isrealites looking for the promised land. Ezekiel lay on one side for greater than a year in obedience to God. Jonah spent three days in the belly of a whale and the disciples waited three days for Jesus resurrection. At this time, Christian’s wait for Jesus’ return; wading through the entropy of time using Him as an anchor, desperately trying to resist the urge to get pulled into the destruction of expedience. This waiting period for our Christ Jesus is indeed bittersweet. As the moments march on, continue the deliberate good work placed in you. Moment by moment, day by day, year by year, the mundane and entertaining until you meet your maker and hear the sweet sound “well done, my good and faithful servant”.
