Wisdom of a Walker

Jesus walked.  There was no rapid transit, no speedy automobiles.  Of course, the one thing Jesus never seemed to do was live in a hurry.  He went from here to there, but always in His own time.  When His brothers pressed Him to go to the Festival of Booths in Jerusalem, He delayed as He said to them, "Go to the festival yourselves, I am not going to the festival, for my time has not yet fully come."  (John 7:8)  And when Jesus got the message that His friend Lazarus was ill, the Scripture says, "...after hearing that Lazarus was ill, He stayed two days longer in the place where He was."  (John 11:6)  If Jesus reveals to us in human flesh something about the nature of God, then it goes without saying that God is not One to get in a hurry.   

It would seem that there is no clock in the eternal hallways.  There is no schedule to keep.  At least there is no schedule that is visible to the human eye.  We often try to hurry God in our praying as we tell Him that it is expedient that He act quickly, but it often seems He turns a deaf ear to such petitions.  His way is not the hurried way.  With eternity in your hands, there is always enough time.  The clock and the calendar are human creations to which God apparently pays little attention.  And when the Word does point to Him speaking in terms of days and years, it is obviously more for the benefit of those on earth and not so much for Him.   

And, of course, another side of all this is the fact that we are the only part of the creation which seems to live in a hurry.  While it surely puts us out of step with how we are meant to live, we race ahead anyway as if getting there quicker, faster, and first is a major human achievement.  Most of us realize somewhere in the depths of our being that life is not meant to be lived at the pace we live it, but there is this uncontrollable urge to push ourselves to the limits of our strength.  Perhaps, all our hurrying is symptomatic of the sin of not trusting God to keep us in the best way.  Instead of waiting, we rush on to whatever.