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• No one likes to wait.
  - Illustration: Ortberg tests the congregation with a humorous multiple choice quiz, demonstrating our natural, ungodly responses when we are forced to wait.
  - Illustration: Ortberg touches on the common heart of frustration by quoting Lewis Smedes who summarizes the inevitable waiting that accompanies life.

• God commands us to wait upon him.
  - Illustration: Ortberg expounds upon biblical stories where God told his people to wait, including Abraham, the Israelite nation, Simeon, Anna, and the disciples.
• Contrary to popular opinion, waiting is not irresponsibility.

• Waiting requires patience.
  - Illustration: Ortberg jokes about an ingenious economist who thinks he's discovered a loophole in Scripture that might make him rich, only to discover that God uses the same loophole to teach the man patience.
  - Illustration: Ortberg picks up on the theme of trust by relating an Henri Nouwen story of the absolute faith of the trapeze artist who must hang in midair, waiting for his partner to catch him.
• Waiting requires confident humility.
• Waiting requires inextinguishable hope.