“Please enjoy the music while your party is reached.“
This refrain became popular as phone companies began providing people with the opportunity to select music that their callers would hear rather than the traditional ring tone. It offered the caller a unique and hopefully more pleasant waiting experience, and it offered the receiver a chance to exert their personality to whomever may call. Instead of just waiting for the anticipated answer, now the caller had something to do to occupy their time.
In the Christian life, it often seems like we do a lot of waiting. Whether it’s waiting to see how God will work through a particular situation, or waiting for our Heavenly Home, we spend a lot of our journey in anticipation of what’s coming next. However, just like the popular cell phone refrain, we shouldn’t be spending our wait time doing nothing. We should be using that time to glorify God, to work for Him, and in doing so, bringing Him worship.
As a song by John Waller says:
While I’m waiting
I will serve you
While I’m waiting
I will worship
While I’m waiting
I will not faint
I will be running the race
Even while I wait.
May the same be true of us. May we not squander our wait time, but may we “keep on, keeping on” knowing that in the waiting, we can worship, and in the worship, our waiting becomes a beautiful thing.
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