Want to know a fun fact about me? I hate waiting. I simply do not like to wait for things I want right away. I know I’m not the only one that feels this way. We currently live in a culture of immediacy. Take Apple for instance. They are currently coming up with the newest technology and iOS updates and new iPhones. I even catch myself waiting impatiently in the checkout line at the grocery store. There’s a reason they make self-check out lines; we want to do things our way and not have to wait in lines. Just look at Disney World. People (guilty of this) pay extra money to get Fast Passes where they can bypass the long lines. Simply put, we don’t want to wait for things that we EXPECT to get them instantly as if the world revolves around us. I don’t know about you, but that’s convicting to me. I do not want to live this life centered around me when IT IS NOT. This life is all about God and what He is doing. He is the creator and we are His creation.
My impatience is a result of the Fall. It is a result of sin entering the perfect world that God created and making it broken. God’s original design was for us all to be in an intimate and perfect relationship with Him. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve didn’t have any needs that weren’t met, they weren’t afraid of anything, and they sure weren’t impatient for the “next big thing” because they were perfectly content with what God had given them because they lived in utmost intimacy with their Creator.
But there’s good news, my friends!!! We can still have an intimate relationship with our Creator because Jesus bridged the gap (that sin created) between the Creator (God) and His creation (us) by coming to earth, living the life the perfect life we couldn’t live, taking all of the sins that we have committed and will commit while dying on the Cross. But the story didn’t end there, but He rose again, conquering death. By faith in Christ and what He has done for us, we live VICTORIOUS.
After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they were immediately afraid. “They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God” (Genesis 3:8). However, in His love, God graciously clothed Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:21 says, “the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.”
Sometimes we read over this part of the creation story without realizing that an animal, God’s creation, had to be killed so that Adam and Eve could be clothed with the skin of the animal. God loves all His creation, but us humans were made in His image and He will do anything for us to be in a relationship with Him. Just like God covered Adam and Eve with the animal skin, He has covered us with the precious blood of Christ. We can now be in an intimate relationship with God again thanks to Jesus.
I don’t know about you, but when I truly grasp the Gospel and what God has done to win us back to Him in the perfect relationship He created us to be with Him, my views on everything else change. Somehow I no longer think that the world revolves around me. I am more patient and instead of longing impatiently for the next perishable thing on this broken earth, I am eagerly awaiting Jesus’ return and when we get to be in PERFECT harmony with our creator again just like how it was originally designed in the Garden.
