A couple of weeks ago, we finished (kind of) flipping a few of the rooms in our house, and my study went from being an interior room to the old garage. It’s awesome, and I have tons of room that I didn’t have before, but there’s something else that I have now that I didn’t before the flip:
Less privacy from the rest of the neighborhood.
That might not be the best way to put it, but basically, I have two large windows on the side next to our neighbor’s house that don’t have curtains.
So, I did what any person would do who wants to build a relationship with their neighborhood for the gospel: I logged onto the Lowe’s website to order blinds.
The problem, though, was that the expected shipment delivery date was two weeks away, and since I thought that was much too long to have to wait, I didn’t order them.
The other day as I was sitting at my desk writing and trying not to look silly because I knew that my neighbors might see me, I thought about how I really needed those blinds, and so I went back to the Lowe’s website to order them.
You guessed it. The delivery date was still going to be 2 weeks after I clicked “order.”
This time, though, I actually completed the purchase. But God taught me something in all of that. I kept thinking about how I would have already had those blinds installed if I had simply ordered them the first time, instead of choosing not to because of how long it would take to get them.
Not ordering didn’t decrease the wait. It increased it.
How many times have you and I put off starting something because of how long it would take to finish it, only to realize that we could have had it done if we’d have only started? Or if we hadn’t stopped once or twice or twenty times after we started?
Delays are inevitable, and very often out of our control. Whether it’s for blinds to make us feel more secure or for answered prayers to bring us hope, the longer we wait to place the order or pray the prayer, the longer we’ll wait for the fulfillment.
Delays happen. Order anyway.
