To wait is to wrestle against the need for an immediate response and it might just be that in the waiting, we learn more than we would in an answer....
We think of love, for example in marriage, as some kind of business deal, where one person commits to loving another as long as they receive love in return. But that’s not what God means by love at all....
The Bible was written in a polytheistic culture: a culture which believed that there were many gods. But there is one thing that distinguishes the Christian God from all other gods....