Still Baking. Please Wait.

I think one of the keys to great baking is perfecting the art of timing. 

You could have the perfect recipe but, if under-baked, all you get is half-cooked ingredients and a funky texture in your mouth. What's supposed to be mouth-watering becomes anti-climatic and disappointing. It wasn't given the time it needed to become all that it could become. 

Good bakers know the importance of timing. They are willing to wait because they know it's all part of the process of making it great. In a sense, they're given a promise: if they wait for the oven to do its job, they are sure to have great end results.

Waiting can be hard in life. But, when waiting is attached to a Promise, it helps remove the questioning in the wait. Like a baker, we can be sure of a great end result, no matter how long the wait. 

I might say to my child, you can have dessert, but you have to wait. She trusts my word. She knows if I say it, I mean it. And, if I mean it, I'll do it. She doesn't have to question whether she'll get it. She simply has to be patient for it. 

And, in the same way, we wait on God, knowing that the One who makes a Promise...will keep it.