What good is waiting? For one thing, it makes for a better president. At least that’s what America’s Founding Fathers believed when they set the minimum age of 35 as a requirement for the White House occupant. This rule, wrote founder and statesman John Jay, “confines the electors to men of whom the people have had time to form a judgment, and with respect to whom they will not be liable to be deceived by those brilliant appearances of genius and patriotism, which, like transient meteors, sometimes mislead as well as dazzle.”

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Lamentations 3:25

Age and experience, of course, don’t guarantee wisdom, but they usually help. If you think about some of the prayers you prayed 10 or 20 years ago, you likely will realize in retrospect that some of them were misguided. You may even thank God now that He chose in His infinite wisdom not to answer them affirmatively.

Today, as you intercede for America and approach God with your needs, do so with a willingness to wait…recognizing it may be what you need to do, even if it may not be what you want to do. Waiting – and seeking God in the process – will make for a better Christian.

Recommended Reading: I Corinthians 2:1-10