November 17, 2025
One of the most challenging themes found in the Bible is practicing the art of waiting.
In fact, I dare say that the entire Old Testament is a story about that.
Waiting.
So often in life, especially in the Prime world we live in, having to wait is viewed as an incredible inconvenience.
The sad story about this truth is that everything in life requires time.
However, due to the technological advancements we have seen, we seem to forget this phenomenon that creation itself shows us every single day, in every single season.
We have planting and we have harvest.
We have conception and we have birth.
We have life and we have death.
We have sickness and we have disease
We have seasons of abundant harvest and we have seasons of drought.
Somewhere along the way we seem to have forgotten this and taken for granted the expedient nature of life as we know it.
Everything seems to be at warp speed and we forget that good things take time.
I had the opportunity to become closely acquainted with this principle when I opened my business in 2016.
I was of the assumption that when I put my sign out there, the patients would come flocking to the door and we would very quickly be booked solid.
This was something I prayed for daily leading to our opening.
I asked God for the opportunity to serve so many patients that we would be overwhelmed with the amount of sick people looking to get well.
Little did I know that God would most definitely bless me with that opportunity in the form of patience.
As many of you know who have started any type of business, the idea of having a business that is at capacity when you open is a dream.
More likely than not, you had the ample opportunity to practice the art of patience.
However, a key distinction here is that when given that opportunity, it doesn’t mean that you sat around at your house eating reese’s PB cups and playing Fortnite thinking that your business would magically explode overnight (you did the praying after all)
Instead you learned that your actions today would not give you the dopamine hit of success in the form of results that you desired today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.
In fact, more likely than not what you learned in practicing aggressive patience was that every single action you were taking today would have successful fruit much further down the road.
Building anything worthwhile requires an exorbitant amount of time, energy, and patience.
If God Had just given the Messiah to the Israelites, they probably would have laughed and gone back to the Egyptians.
If you were given instant success, you would more than likely lose it all.
If I had a practice full of patients day 1, my ability to be a doctor would be severely compromised as I had many lessons to learn in the last 10 years.
Practicing the art of waiting is where you grow the virtues and the habits that will help you sustain the success you have always dreamed of.
While the dopamine rush of Amazon Prime can sustain you for a short period of time, it doesn’t even compare to the deep joy and satisfaction you will sustain when you understand the role aggressive patience has in your life.
Thus, no matter where you are on your journey in this life, maybe you haven’t yet quite arrived at where you want to be, do not stop taking action.
Stay the course, practice patience, work harder than you did yesterday, and pretty soon you will look up and you will be exactly where you thought you would be years ago.
