Are We There Yet? a Sermon Based on James Chapter 5 Verses 1-11

A Love Works Daily Commentary

One of the things, beside "I have to go to the bathroom" that you are likely to hear if you take a car trip with small children is...

"Are we there yet?"

Patience has never been one of my strongest suits. And I was one of those kids who would just get in the car and already want to be there.

You could say I had my eye on the destination, and didn't care so much for the scenery along the way.

As we have entered into the holiday season, this seems to manifest itself it two very specific ways for two differing groups of people.

There are those who can't wait for the holidays to arrive, and those who can't wait for them to get over.

As children, most of us could not wait until Christmas.

We counted the days.

We counted the packages.

We counted the days until we could open the packages.

And by this time in December things had reached a fever pitch...

Unknown to my parents, at least I thought..........

I had already opened a number of my presents and carefully rewrapped them. I just couldn't wait to get to The day to arrive.

It was just so exciting. I had a little calendar thing that you opened up a door each day and got a piece of candy. Each door you opened was one less until Christmas.

Then Christmas Eve would come. "I just can't wait till tomorrow."

Then we'd go to Christmas Eve service at church. "I just can't wait for it to get over so I can go home and get to bed."

The ONLY night of the whole year I actually wanted to go to bed, so I could

Lay there, and lay there, and lay there......

Can't wait till morning.

As we get older, this tends to change for many of us.

Somehow now with Christmas, or any holiday, we just wanted it to get over.

The hussle and bussle of getting things all ready, the shopping, the traffic while shopping, the cooking, the decorating, the things you just HAVE to go to, the relatives coming to visit.

Then there's the clean up and packing up and finally getting the household back in order, and paying for all the stuff that you really couldn't afford to buy anyway.

Instead of "I can't wait for Christmas!"

You now hear people say "I can't believe it's Christmas already, where did the year go?"