I pulled up to the drive-through banking and put my check in the cylinder before placing it in the tube that would send it on its way to the 2 tellers inside the small, brick building. I could see that one of the ladies was helping a customer in the lane to my left while the other stayed busy doing something else. Probably taking her morning break, I surmised. Because I was in a hurry to get to Bible study (yes, I even hate to admit that fact), I started getting a little miffed that the second teller wouldn't stop what she was doing and help me out. All I needed was to cash a small $25 check. No multiple transactions here. And so I waited ... and waited ... and waited ... getting more and more frustrated with each passing moment. After all, I had a Bible study to get to!
FINALLY, the other car drove away, PRAISE THE LORD! and I heard the teller who had been so diligent at work say, "Ma'am, would you please press the button to send me your tube?" Dang it. I had been sitting there the entire time waiting to be helped and grumbling to myself for the lack of it, and I was the reason for the delay the whole time.
But you know, I had to laugh about it as I sat there waiting for her to complete my transaction. Isn't that the same thing we do to God? There He is with all the resources to help us, ever willing to help us, and we get miffed because He seems preoccupied with something else. In reality, what He is often doing is just waiting on us to our part. To join Him in the transaction.
A little dose of humility never hurt anybody. In fact, it can prove quite helpful ... especially as one heads in to teach Bible study.
Just an ordinary moment...
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