Wait for the Lord

https://odb.org/MY/2022/07/07/hurry-up-and-wait

Not to compare with the era of Keynes (the economics theorist that everyone who had studied economics cannot not know) in the 1930s but even say, 30 years back, the pace of life was slower. I remembered when I first came out to work, we were still using typewriters and even word processors like Wordstar and WordPerfect followed the way of the typewriter when formatting and aligning text. I can’t remember whether we even get to select the font type and size! We typed out our letters and send them by mail and fax. You only get to see the photo after it was processed and printed out as it was still purely 35mm film then. No mobile phones yet when I first started work. Of course later when mobile phones came, we started sending sms texts. Still information was not as readily available as now at our finger tips via Google and the world wide web.

So strangely even as Keynes predicted that with the advent of technology and machines and heightened economic activities, humans will only need to work 3 hours a day or 15 hours a week – we have turned out to work longer and longer hours! 12-hour days with traffic and commuting is pretty much the norm nowadays! In larger cities and metros, it is always a rush to get to work. We go through a sea of people as we take the tube, the underground or in KL, our LRTs and MRTs but more likely we see thousands and thousands of cars and motorcycles on the road. I recall that the favourite mode of transportation back in my day was the No.11 and 12 minibuses prowling the PJ-KL city centre routes.

Will we pause to wait for the Lord? Will we, like David, seek to learn what the Lord will do for me? What is the plan? What is God’s plans and purposes for us?

Life will not slow down. It will get more hectic until the day we retire. There will always be things to do, deadlines to meet. I have just been at my new workplace for a month and there are already multiple matters running in parallel that we need to chase and close. In IT, the world is evolving into the cloud, into digitalisation, big data and analytics. People are talking about curated content, targeted advertising and recommendation engines.

As humans, we always need to adapt as the world changes but as believers we must always maintain an eternal perspective on things while seeking the Lord every day as to what the Lord will do for me, or rather what does He want us to do? Remember as children of God, we have a specific mission on earth. We may be pilgrims passing through, but we are all pilgrims with a calling. Wait for the Lord, seek Him and He will be the lamp unto our path!