No greater death than waiting

"There is no greater death than waiting, which is at the very heart of priestliness. Priests did not commence their priestly meeting until seven days of waiting were fulfilled. Seven is the number of completion, and the completion was the final death of their well-meaning intentions to do for God. Until that dies, there is not true priestly service, and if it is not priestly it is not apostolic. Jesus is the High Priest and Apostle of our confession. The first must precede the last. Impatience, self-will, religious ambition, the necessity to do and be seen doing, to be recognized and acknowledged is death to the purposes of God."

Apostolic Foundations, Arthur Katz