the saints under the altar (Rev. 6:9–10). But God is not constrained by our petty timetables. Committed though he is to his people’s good, he well understands that delays are not always bad. Moreover, if we walk with God long enough, we begin to learn the lesson ourselves: we look back from a longer perspective and start to appreciate that God’s timing is best. We may then marvel at our own impatience. We are too much like children whose every request is stamped with “Now!” c. Some of us thoroughly