The Halo 3 campaign was all about “finishing the fight” that was left incomplete at the end of Halo 2, but it took three long years of waiting before gamers were finally able to drop into the conclusion of the original Halo trilogy to see how Bungie would resolve the conflict with Covenant. While three years feels like a long time between installments for us, for the developer it was a relatively short development cycle for a AAA game… especially one that had to live up to such high expectations and would conclude this story arc for multiple characters. The wait felt long to us, but the stakes were incredibly high… so the “delay” was necessary to bring it all together.

While waiting on the Lord is one of my least favorite activities in life, He has a reason for what appears to be a “delay” in what we are seeking. The doors that He opens for us may represent the closure of a door for someone else, and in His infinite mercy He will wait until the perfect time for both of those events to occur by holding the door open for them to the last possible moment. And in the meantime, He wants us to find the beauty and purpose in the places that we are currently occupying as we continue down the path that He designed for us. Let’s be patient with His timing… there was a day He held the door a little longer for us, too.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9

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