"Many people flock to places and persons who promise intensive experiences of togetherness, cathartic emotions of exhilaration and sweetness, and liberating sensations of rapture and ecstasy. In our desperate need for fulfillment...we are all too prone to construct our own spiritual events. In our impatient culture, it has indeed become extremely difficult to see much salvation in waiting."
Part of what this says to me is this: I have begged God for some kind of work in my life that would change me, something that would liberate me from the chains that bind. I have envisioned going to this or that extreme in order to experience God's liberating work in my life.
But what if he simply wants me to wait? What if the salvation I seek is simply a "wait" away? What if the liberation did not come in a mind-blowing sensation or rapturous ecstasy? What if it came instead in a still small voice?
Can I wait for the quiet voice? Can I accept the quiet voice as the liberating, saving act of God?
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