Waiting…

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There is no greater death than waiting, which is at the very heart of priestliness  -Art Katz

I have a love/hate relationship with this quote. I want to be priestly, but I hate waiting. I really hate waiting.  Few things in this life are harder for me. Yet because of my inability to wait well, I find that it the thing I do most. I wait. And I fuss. I wait. And I cry. I wait. And I start to lose heart. I wait. And finally I give into the necessity of waiting and the Lord breaks in. It really is a death. The quote if from the book Apostolic Foundations by Art Katz. He dives head first into the abundant details of the priesthood and what Aaron and his sons endured to be set apart as a priestly people to ministeer before the Lord. It’s gorey and messy. Covered in blood, standing for 7 days and waiting, being stripped naked before the people of Israel – literaly- the nation was called to watch the process of consectration. Incidently, the word consecration means, “Hands full of blood”. Waiting was required. The Lord was demonstrating that the process of being set apart did not come without a price. It was an exhasting, exacting, bloody mess. Nowadays, the process is not external as much as internal, yet no less messy. I’m learning that anything of value usually takes time. Jesus is faithful in the waiting. He’s waited and waited, He knows what it is to want something and the pain of desire unmet. He is the Great High Priest, able to sympathize with the waiting I endure. So I wait, eventually it will yield a reward greater than I can comprehend, whether I receive what I wait for in this life, or like Abraham, in the age to come.

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