I've been reminded recently to "wait happy and busy." My lifelong tendency has been to anticipate a fanciful faraway future when I will be in more optimal circumstances, more spiritually mature, more prepared, more _______. Then I will be happy, then I will accomplish my dreams, then I will be living God's plan for me, then I will have it all. But when the future arrives, it turns out to be just another ordinary today, and nothing has changed. I can never change the future, but I have an opportunity to change yesterday's future now.
C. S. Lewis said, "Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose." I add, "Don't let your happiness depend on something you have yet to gain." If you do, it will always be just beyond your reach, with whatever more you require to be fully satisfied. If you are not content now, you will not be then. Happiness is a virtue of the present.
Likewise, if you are not living God's plan for you now, why should He entrust you with a greater responsibility? His commands won't wait for the perfect situation or perfect people. Spurgeon offers wise words: "You are to consider that the position which you occupy is, all things considered, the most
advantageous that you could possibly have occupied for doing the utmost that you are capable of doing
for the glory of God." Wherever you are is exactly where God wants you at this moment, and your task is only to do the utmost with it.
There is always more to look forward to, all the way to eternity, but while we wait, let us resolve to be happy and busy now!