In Due Season

Nothing wears you down like waiting, especially for the most precious.
Eyes grow weary—they have searched almost every crowd, every corner of airports at stopovers, behind the stalks of garments at pompous malls, and in almost all walks of life.
Who wrote that expectation is a bad habit? It is not. It is not for sure. It is the lifeline.
What else makes sense?
What else will make you hang on?
What else would help you dream?
Faith is hoping in the unseen, and trusting the unseen.
Expectation is like faith: hoping and trusting.
The Bible says that there is a season for everything. A season for tears, a season for smiles.
In the first half of my life, I have wrapped my tears with my smiles, but the season was of tears.
It will change.
Leaves will change colours; trees will shed them in a hurry. But in due season, we’ll see tender tongues of new leaves. That’s the cycle. The roll of seasons.
But nothing wears you down like waiting…this expectation.
But you trust that soft whisper within you. You know the voice. You know who it is. You trust Him.
The world may be against, the system and society may mock, throw stones. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is the voice, and the speaker; the one who has promised.
He is faithful enough to fulfill his promise. His hands are not shortened that they cannot reach you. Nor his ears closed that they cannot hear your groans.
That’s it.
We read how Jacob toiled for Rachel—first seven years, only to be cheated and given her sister. Then another seven years for his beloved.
He worked for 14 years to marry his love.
There is a season for everything. For struggles, and for rewards in due season.