Excited with Patience

I think that our imagination functions at it's best when we're waiting on something big. For me, it's waiting for graduation on Thursday, a flight to a foreign country to do missions later this month, and finding out where I'm going to be working next year. In a time when I want to be impatient, I'm really getting excited about the possibilities that are in front of me. There are great people I could meet, new events I have the opportunity to experience, and different roads I can travel in a short amount of time.

As it turns out, the joy in thinking of all these possibilities is without end. Often we forget that amazing things can happen because we only expect an average outcome to occur. When we expect the least, we cut God out of the equation (I would say we're cutting out hope, because the two are directly related; but no God means no one made hope). This digression could be extended for a few paragraphs but it's more beneficial to say it only once this way:

Christ rose from the dead and sent the Spirit to empower and guide us. Therefore we should know that if God wills it, the extraordinary will occur.

We have no reason to not hope and dream for the good things that may come. Even when bad ones are evident and taking their toll on our lives. Regardless of one's situation, there is always a new day ahead that can bring the unexpected and expected if we're willing to open our eyes. Yes, due to our fallen nature it's difficult to continually look at things this way (I fail to more often than I'd like). But in the light of Christ, endless possibilities are abundantly found.