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D E V O T I O N A LWe all do it.Everybody knowsthe experience—withoutexception. It is partof our daily life. Small children arefamiliar with it, just as older peopleand everybody in between. No matterwhether you are a student, a successfulbusinesswoman, or unemployed, youhave to deal with it. Nobody is exempt.Men experience it just like women,single persons the same as marriedcouples. Divorced people have to livewith it, and widowers as well. Youencounter it when you are healthy orwhen you are sick. It does not matterwhere you live on this globe or whatcolor your skin is. It is a universalhuman condition. I am not talkingabout sin. And yet I hardly know anybodywho looks forward to experiencingit. What am I describing the wholetime? I’m talking about waiting.We All WaitEvery human being waits.We hope and dream—and wait.We are hungry and thirsty—and wait.We yearn for change and look forhappiness—and wait.We experience suffering and are inpain—and wait for relief.We study and work—and wait forthe results. Some things we hope forare delayed—and keep us waiting. Wepray—and wait for answers. We waitin line at the supermarket and the gasstation. We wait in traffic jams and atairports. We wait for the mail toarrive. We wait so good things willhappen and bad things will go away.Some wait at night to fall asleep, andsome even wait to die.It seems as if our entire life, frombirth to death, is characterized bywaiting. Some waiting appears short,and time passes quickly. For otherthings we wait our whole life. Itappears that waiting makes us awarethat often the most important, mostWaitingGod’s way oftransformationBy Frank M. Hasel12 Adventist World | October 2011