Well, Pastor Robert is not here this morning, but he will be back with us next weekend to continue his series on happiness,

redefined.

But today I want to share a message with you called, when God says wait, you have your Bible's turn with me to

Isaiah chapter 40 and as you're doing that I'm going to question for you do you

really enjoy waiting just want to know.

I mean, have you ever gone at a stop sign?

Have you ever been to stoplight?

It turns yellow and then to red and you're stopped there

and as it's cycling around back to you know green you know 15

minutes later and it finally turns green have you ever thought to yourself

man I wish it would have just stayed red for a few minutes longer. I was just starting to relax and enjoy looking

at the people around me and the other cars. You ever do that? Never happens, right? Have you ever

purchased a new computer? brought it home and then realized,

you know, I got to take this back to the store and you take it back to the salesman and you tell them,

this computer runs too fast.

Do you have anything slower?

It never happens. Those of you that have dial-up internet really understand

what I'm talking about. It rented a doctor's office in the waiting room for, I don't know, half

your life. And then finally they call your name, and you've ever said to the nurse,

no, please, take a few more patients.

I'm just getting into this issue from 1998's Newsweek.

Just never happens, does it? Why is that? Because we hate to wait!

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