The lesson in Walmart

Have you ever been in a supermarket ready to buy your groceries and scanned with your eyes to find the aisle with the shortest line? I think we all have. It is our nature to go about our business as quickly as possible. No one wants to wait longer than they have to. This happened to me in Walmart the other day. I brought my mom to buy some groceries and when we finished with our selection I spotted the line to choose. It only had one person in it, yet she had a full basket. As we waited, she put her items and then almost near the end, she payed for the first half.
Now we had already been waiting about 5 minutes because the cashier wasn't the fastest worker I ever seen. I tried to be content by thinking at least she has a bagger. Then the cashier finishes the rest of the items and the woman takes out a stack of coupons for all the items she has purchased. Now my blood pressure starts to go up. You see, everyone else in the longer lines were now finished. I looked to mom and whispered, boy I sure picked the wrong line to get in. It took the cashier at least 5 more minutes to scan each coupon, and many wouldn't scan so she had to enter each number by hand.
The thoughts running through my mind were not the best. "Why didn't she have them out at first for the cashier." "Why didn't she let us know she had two seperate orders to buy, my poor mom had to stand all that time?" I didn't see how ugly impatience can truly be, this was not a "biggy" to me. Yet while I was standing there, I could hear the Spirit of God correcting me. Most of the correction was not about what I said, I only said one thing, but in my mind, aye veigh! I instantly was convicted with as a man thinketh, so is He! I had to repent right there and give up the right to "my" time to the Lord. I didn't even ask if this delay had a purpose. I was to busy with my idea of my time, than God's. I looked to my mom and said, " I sure need to be patient."
Beloved, the bible tells us to let "patience" do it's perfect work, for when it is complete we will lack nothing. I didn't understand how God was working this in me in the grocery store. I thought for sure it would be in the big things He would do this, but here in the grocery store, the Almighty God wanted to write His law upon my heart. I didn't even say much, but with the heart man believes. For that moment I could not see or hear what the Lord wanted for me. Maybe I needed to be a light to someone there. Maybe he was saving me from an accident that is down the road. That didn't even enter my mind.
Finally after I dropped to my knees in my heart and said, " I surrender" the peace of God came again. As the man put the bags in the basket, the cashier smiled at me unaware of my thoughts and said to me, " Thank you, have a very blessed day!" I am undone, O Lord! Why did God make me wait in line, so that through His servant I could receive a blessing. Would that blessing had come if I vocalized my thoughts? I don't think so. So beloved readers, every moment of every day is not a waste of time. In every moment there is a purpose whether we are conscious of it or not. The INVISIBLE GOD is always working in us and through us, if we totatlly yeild every moment into His hands. Then patience can have its perfect work.