"Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act." Psalm 37:7

Today I had a break before class started. We have a new professor over the school counseling department and he has made an effort to take each school counseling student to lunch to get to know them better. So I had just had a wonderful lunch and was left with a little break. I was in the upstairs sitting area about to attempt my mid term exam for one of my classes when a fellow classmate of mine walked into the area. We have a class together but had never really talked. She walked up and introduced herself stating that she figured we would finally get to know each other since we have class together, plus I see her on campus pretty often. We ended up having along wonderful discussion! She's in the school counseling program too and has some very similar loves and passions as I do. It was really awesome to discuss many of our idea's and beliefs. One thing that she said that stuck out to me was how society tends to create systems that show instant results. No matter whether it's a social work system, school system, or any other type of system, we want the one that shows instant results. We were both in agreement that when working with humans and changes, there's no such thing as instant results (well, without the Lords help that is).

I've been reading Ezekiel before I go to bed at night as my nightly devotionals. It's one of those chapters in the bible that's really confusing and not fun to read, but I'm in a relationship with God and a part of being in a relationship is knowing everything about someone. After I read the few chapters tonight, I felt the Lord place on my heart to read Psalms 37. Once I got to verse 7 I was reminded of my conversation with my classmate earlier today and the Lord gave me some wisdom. Our society has caught the Willy Wonka girl syndrome. You know, the girl who "wants it and wants it now." But the thing is, that's not how God is and that is certainly not how he intended us to live. He'e constantly having to remind us to "be patient". I can't even begin to count how many time scripture says this. But patients is a foreign concept to us. We've become so adapted to instant results, that patients has become a lost art. I for one really struggle with this. I'm bad about wanting things instantly as well. But I'm growing to learn that this " I want it and want it now" is not of God. He has certainly not put this in us. Therefore, feeding into this is not being "Christ like" which is what he has called us to be (2 Cor. 2:15, Ephesians 4:15)

Looks like I need to find more ways to be "be still...... and wait patiently"