Fast Pass Please

A few years ago my family took a vacation to the place where dreams come true, Disney World. To prepare for the trip I read websites, blogs, and interviewed Disney Word experts. (A.K.A – friends who call Disney World their favorite place on earth.)

In my research I discovered something called Fast Pass. A Fast Pass is a printable ticket that gives you access to some of the most popular rides without having to wait in the long lines. The Fast Pass is ideal for girls like me who don’t like to wait.

Each evening we would map out our ride plan. When the park opened we would rush (noticed we rushed) to the Fast Pass machine to select ride times for the popular rides. It could not have worked out any better, but of course, we were at Disney Word, where dreams come true.

Real life, though an adventure, is far from Disney World’s Adventure Land or Animal Kingdom. Too often we want a Fast Pass straight through God’s pauses to move directly to His plan. God seldom hands out Fast Passes.

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.”James 1:1-2 The Message

God is the creator of time. We can trust His pauses to be perfectly timed and purposeful. The Apostle advises followers of Jesus not take the fast pass through tests and challenges. A pause will work in our favor. Our faith with mature and we will become well-developed women of God, ready for all the good work He has prepared for us. God will make the most of our pause and we should too.

{the wait is more about experiencing God than enduring the delay.}