Patience, Perspective, and Peace

Speaking of patience, I have never been more convinced in my life that God has a passionate obsession with making His children patient children who wait wholly on Him to act on their behalf. God gave Noah the project of building an ark to protect he and his family from the rain that Noah had never seen; and Noah obeyed amongst a wicked and mocking generation for 100 years before his faith was proven as righteousness. God moved Abraham out of his estate and country to a foreign land that was to belong to Abraham’s descendents, though it never belonged to him. His father died during this journey and Abraham had to wait 25 years after God promised Him a child in his impotent old age before he held baby Isaac. Oh, and Joseph grew up with no mother and 10 brothers who hated him for 17 years. Then he was a slave and a prisoner of Egypt for another 14 years before he was given freedom from the punishment of crimes he never committed. Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s court but wandered in the wilderness as a shepherd for 40 years before God led him in the exodus of the Hebrews. Then Moses wandered 40 more years in the desert with the often miserable children of Israel. David ran for his life from Saul for at least 7 years after God had promised him the throne of Israel. Daniel was deported from his family and homeland to live in one of the most pagan, evil cultures for at least 60 years and never got to return home. Prophet after prophet (Jeremiah, Isaiah, Hosea, etc) preached to unrepentant crowds who usually killed them in the end…maybe I’m just imagining this, but I kind of think that God’s sense of timing is a LITTLE bit different than my own. How do I get so impatient when I have so many examples in front of me of those that God used in SIGNIFICANT ways who had to deal with years and years of … seemingly wasted time. Oh God! Will you change this foolish heart that cannot understand Your ways?!!! Please change my perspective that wants to calculate value with earthly measurements instead of heavenly wisdom.