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Most people like things to happen quickly and according to their timetable. And most often we are in a hurry. Dr. Archibald Hart a Christian psychologist suggests that our culture suffers from ‘the hurry up sickness’.

John Ortburg states: “we will buy anything that promises to help us hurry. The best selling shampoo in America rose to the top because it combines shampoo and conditioned in one step, eliminating the need for all the time consuming rinsing people used to have to do…”

He goes on to say, “we worship at the shrine of the Golden Arches, not because they sell ‘good food’ or even ‘cheap food’. But because it is ‘fast food’. Even after fast food was introduced, people still had to park their cars, go inside, order, and take their food to a table, all of which took time. So we invented the Drive – Thro Lane to enable families to eat in their vans as nature intended.” (5)

When things don’t work out the way we hoped or expected we want to get busy and try to fix it. Sometimes we become anxious and upset. As long as we are busy doing something there is the feeling that it will work out because we are working it out. Perhaps we are just going around in circles.

Coming before God and waiting upon him in silence and solitude is really an act of trust that God in his sovereign way will act in his time. David the Psalmist states “My soul waits in silence for God only; from Him is my salvation. He is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken….My soul waits in silence for God only, for my hope is from Him. He is my only rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be shaken…. Trust in him at all times O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge” (Ps.62:1-2; 5-6.; 8).