Did your parents ever say to you when visiting friends, "Let's go" and you are at the door waiting and...20 minutes go by and you are still standing there--waiting?
And now, predictably, you do the same thing to your friend, spouse, child?
We tarry.
Even Jesus did it. He got word his beloved friend, Lazarus, was sick and it would be a bit of a journey to go tend to him. He told the disciples with him they needed to go. "...but oddly, when he heard Lazarus was sick, he stayed on where he was for two more days."
Jesus tarried.
When we tarry at a friend's house, we don't want to leave the hug of the conversation with someone we love.
When Jesus tarries, he makes the hug bigger and better than ever. Though it took him four days to get to by-then-dead Lazarus, the Jesus Hug called him right out of the grave.
I read this from an author I trust: I can be at peace at all times, knowing God wants to bless me.
In all the strange ways Jesus seems to say, Let's go [answer your prayer], and then tarries...and tarries...how wonderful it would be to know that behind it all, he has a Jesus Hug that will bless us wildly.
Can you tarry with Him?
