dailydatewithgod

It doesn’t sound very pleasant when someone says they are biding their time. Who likes waiting? I remember hearing a statistic once that human beings spend three years of their life waiting in line.  I proceeded to look at time in the post office or the grocery store line as racking up my time in line instead of it being fruitless.  Sometimes it helps to tweak the perspective and give it purpose.  If we were to imagine how much time God spending biding for us to accept his love we would find our time standing in line to be minimal. How much time do we bide in the hopes that someone will change their mind or circumstances to change?  The question is not do we spend time biding.  The question is what do we do with our biding time? God doesn’t just do nothing while biding his time.  She continues to be the fullness of creation.  Time does not stop, systems of nature do not go away, and we do not crumble to pieces.  The moment of our awakening we get an inkling as to the potential of God’s love to open us to a multitude of possibilities of love’s presence.  God is building those possibilities while biding.  When we are waiting for someone to love us, do we bide our time by loving us or them?  When we are biding our time do we model ourselves after the One who is growing in love for us with each passing moment. God does not love because we respond to God’s love.  God loves because of who God is.