Waiting for Godot, Greatest Play of the 20th century. Not!

Psalm 38:22 Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior

Is there anyone who likes to wait? We live in a society that wants products and services now. We want our answers now. We want everything right NOW! I have started an internet marketing business from home. I signed up with a terrific company. But there is so much to learn and as I learn, I keep glancing over to see if any leads are coming in because I want them now even though I still have so much to learn about getting those leads.

Meanwhile, God gives no timetable for when He will fulfill promises or when prayers will be answered. He does not promise us that answers come the minute we ask for them. God does not say responses come that day, week, month, or even that year. Timing is not the issue; the issue is faith.

It is easier to ask for something and believe we'll receive it when we think we know the exact minute it will arrive. Praying then waiting for an answer from God is the hard part.

Do not assume God's silence as His denial. He is in no rush and you should not be either because His timing is perfect. What we need to do is ask Him to help us wait on and understand His perfect timing.

I awoke this morning to the luscious smell of coffee. Turned the computer on and reached for my devotional book. I read the devotional above and then out of curiosity, went to a keyword search engine and entered waiting for God. I am an Internet Marketing Strategist and have been looking for keywords to tie my business to my faith, my belief in God.

To my surprise, I got a pretty good response. But the keywords that stood out in my curious mind were “Waiting for Godot,” a play by Samuel Beckett and now I am trying to decide if I regret looking further into this keyword and how it might play out in my home based business as well as relate to my devotional.

His stuff is SO depressing and so far away from what I believe that all I can do is shake my head. Its plot, the characters, everything is supposedly meaningless. But then he confuses me because he says the characters represent all of humanity. They do not like to be around each other but do not want to be apart either. Beckett believes there is no logic or reason for anything they do.

In contrast to what he believes is my definition of faith. Faith is belief and trust in and loyalty to God. Faith is a firm belief in something for which there is no proof. His characters await the coming of Godot. Godot is their God. They believe Godot has cast humanity aside yet each day he promises to come back. When he does not return, the characters take that to mean he fails in his promises which they took to mean this very day.

What is the theme of Godot? The attempt to convince humanity to stop waiting for God to present himself and stop wasting time trying to discover the meaning of life. The author believes that no matter how long we wait, Godot will not come. God, if he exists, contributes to the chaos by his silence. Beckett died in 1989 probably before seeing his Godot. He proposed that life is essentially meaningless but people cannot bare that, so we create our own Godot to save us from earthly hell. Nobody knows the day that my God is returning. It declares that in the Bible. The return date is only known by God.

Although Beckett asks what we are doing here, his answer is that: In this immense confusion, we are waiting for Godot to come. The illusion of salvation is needed to cope with a meaningless life and to Beckett, Godot is that illusion. He wants us to believe that life is based on chance, time is meaningless, human life is meaningless so humans must invent or rely on such Godots, or they would die. What about you? I do not find my life meaningless. If I did, I would not bother to continue to work on my internet marketing business or do anything else for that matter. I find his writing to be offensive.

Beckett questions why we continue to even live but answers with a conflicted: because we make life meaningful. (I thought he said we are meaningless.) He wants us to stop waiting for some manifestation and live out our lives because according to Beckett, that is when the meaning of life will become apparent to us. According to the Bible says we are to persistently watch for His return because no one knows when that will be. I will repeat the definition of faith: Faith is belief in God. Faith is a firm belief in something for which there is no proof. And as I stated earlier, God is not on our timetable but His own.

Waiting for Godot has been called the greatest play of the 20th century but I do not know how that is possible. I am sure literary critics will consider me stupid and backward but I don't care! I did find it humorous that when Beckett won the Nobel Prize in 1969, his wife, Suzanne, commented: "This is a catastrophe." I happen to agree with her. Beckett refused to attend the Nobel ceremony.

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