{"id":15902,"date":"2020-04-10T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T22:18:52","slug":"not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=15902","title":{"rendered":"Not So Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by Anna Mondal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m a patient woman. I can wait in the self-checkout line at least 26 seconds before I start deep-sighing and foot-tapping. I&rsquo;ve also built up to exactly three seconds before I blast my horn at a still-stopped car when the light turns green. I can&rsquo;t speak globally, but I know my country is full of people like me, who have an acquired taste for the instantaneous: swift service, quick text replies, immediate resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us impose this immediacy mindset on our spiritual growth in suffering. We want to isolate the problem and execute a resolution. Painful experiences like gender identity struggles, marriage crises, or chronic illness defy watertight categories and quick answers. We can easily become confused, weary, and disheartened.<\/p>\n<p>If our pain is supposed to produce endurance (Romans 5:3-5; James 1:2-4)&mdash;why isn&rsquo;t it happening faster? Why doesn&rsquo;t God give us answers? What words of hope does Christ offer the weary and waiting?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivate and wait <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you grow flowers, you know that beautiful things don&rsquo;t bloom overnight. A garden bursting with tulips and dahlias is the result of thousands of hours of buried bulbs and unseen cultivation. Before the blossoms, there was only dirt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anna Mondal I\u2019m a patient woman. I can wait in the self-checkout line at least 26 seconds before I start deep-sighing and foot-tapping. I\u2019ve also built up to exactly three seconds before I blast my horn at a still-stopped car when the light turns green. I can\u2019t speak globally, but I know my country&#8230; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":15904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[284],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-15902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ibcd-jim-newheiser","tag-blog","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0e4709328_1448999107_itunes-art-8-913.jpg?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15906,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions\/15906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}