It's hard to have patience. Look, even the tulips are too soon, and you think they would have it figured out by now. I worry they'll be frostbitten and won't have the beautiful blooms I've been looking forward to all this long winter. If they would have just waited another month.
OK so I'm using this as a simple little metaphor for our recent lives. We thought we had a plan - we were finally in a position to expand to another location and had it identified and were ready to approach the owner (who, by the way, had wanted to sell to us earlier). But another offer has already been accepted. It's gone. So now whats the plan?
I want to bloom and be fruitful! But I don't want to be like my little tulip bulbs and jump into something too soon. We have alternatives, do we follow a different course of action? False signs can be so tantalizing, how do you know if its time or not?. On the other hand, what if there is something better available and we needed the door to shut on the first thing, in order to find the better thing.
Thats where practicing patience becomes so important. and practicing faith. For after all, everything is the Lords, and He is faithful.
Can't wait to see how those bulbs do. :-)
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