Comments on: Can You Wait on God?

By: Amrit Ray

Amrit Ray — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:46 +0000

I think we need God. Because we need to depend on someone in times of need. We need to believe that God will work things out. But I don’t really think it happens that way. Whatever you do, you do it yourself.

The belief in God gives you courage, but that’s all that it does, and nothing more. This is called the conditioning of the mind. I know the coming generations will believe otherwise.

By: Bernard Moon

Bernard Moon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:44:34 +0000

Thanks, Esther. Wanting control is a big issue for me… among other many big issues

Michael, great additional information. It is amazing how a culture breeds that type of long-term thinking.

Thanks, Eliot, for the great insights. Being open was a key point you brought up. Sometimes I find myself too stubborn to be open to God’s prompting.

By: Eliot

Eliot — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:36:01 +0000

Can you wait on God? Answer to this question based on my long list of failures is pretty simple. You have no choice!
But for many, I would be on the top of this list, we choose to ignore this simple truth by rationalizing our failures and modifying our measures of success. We even blame natural disaster which would bring us back to Act of God.

On the other hand, we need to be open to the creativity of God. After all, He is the ultimate Creator. The green lights we look for seem to come in many shapes and colors.

By: Michael Yang

Michael Yang — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:13:34 +0000

We all can be challenged by the Chinese when it comes to long term thinking and planning. When I visited China some 8 years ago and went to the Great Wall and the design of Beijing city I was awe struck how how big scale the Chinse people think and how long a perspective they have (some 300 years for the Great Wall). When you ask a Chinse entrepreneur how he is going to accomplish his audacious business goals some will say "if I can’t do it in my life time then my son can do it, if not his grandson, etc. etc.). Big scale. Long term thinking.

By: Esther Kimm

Esther Kimm — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:50:03 +0000

Yes, i tend to be impatient as well and try to make quick decisions especially since i have to run my own company and have a lot of people waiting on me to decide the direction of the company. Talk about waiting on God, I thought i could control even child bearing and that I could plan it whenever i wanted….well, almost 8 years later, totally unplanned, God granted us a child in HIS time, not ours. Now after having a baby, I have quickly realized and learned (in just 7 months) that time is not something anyone can control and that God’s time is perfect and if you don’t wait on God’s time and just move forward on your own, then it will always be the wrong time.

Its funny when I think about how little control we actually have….for example, if my baby doesn’t sleep, no one sleeps.

Signed,

The out of control and always waiting on God’s time mother.

p.s., if anyone can show me how to convince a baby to have a bowel movement on command, I’ll buy stock in his/her company.