Wait!

I remember when I was a child I would say I can't wait for Christmas; I guess as a kid I would have missed a lot of days of life if I could have fast forward to Christmas Day. I remember buying a car one Friday night because I didn't think I could wait and the sales man didn't help either saying things like "this vehicle may not be here when you come back, you better go ahead and buy it if you want it and let's make a deal tonight." I have learned now that they call that impulse buying and sales people like you to buy like that, but you know what comes later? Thoughts like what was I thinking about and did I ever think I could pay for this. My best friend bought a truck like that and I can still hear him saying "I didn't pray about buying that truck but I prayed hard to get out from under that note." We have all done that I am sure at one time or another even when others were saying wait, have you prayed about that; but oh no we just rush into it without doing any of that. That is just what Abraham did, he forgot what God had promised him and so did his wife Sara and decided to have it their way. God told Abraham:

Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 15:6
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. As time went by no children and it looked like God may have forgotten or maybe there was a misunderstanding on Abraham's part.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

Genesis 16:3

And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 16:4
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

What seemed at the time to be a good idea to Sara turned out to make her jealous of Hagar. Abraham should have used his head here and said NO! Let's wait on God for He has promised. We must remember what the word of God says and not what we think at the moment.

Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. We live in a let's have it now society but that's not the way God works.
Genesis 16:16
And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

It would be 14 more years before Isaac would be born to Abraham. Waiting does not always mean next day or next month or even next year in this case it was 14 years but Abraham and Sara decided not to wait. They thought they knew what was best and forgot about God's promise to them.
Gen 21:5
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. Wishing that a day would soon be here is only giving away your time and doing something on impulse is probably not the right thing to do at the moment. I know what I am about to say is hard but we must learn to wait! The Bible even tells us to wait, I don't know about you but I must learn to wait. Help me Lord to learn this valuable art; wait!