Waiting (Poem)

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Our soul waits for The Lord.

(Psalm 33:20)

Waiting for The Lord. Of life, this is the essence.

In life, there is nothing of greater importance.

From womb-to-tomb, before and after, on Him we wait.

Take time this notion to unpack and investigate.

As our ‘waiting room’, you might say God designed earth.

To Him, waiting for Him enhances our worth.¹

For each life, He has ‘a will and a way’.

Apart from waiting, from this we’ll all stray.

Before our lives, in Him, we wait to be born.

Once born, we wait, full adulthood to adorn.

As adults, we ponder and wait for our days to end,

All the while, wishing we could change this waiting trend!

In death’s sleep, we’ll wait for our great awakening,

Our dark, dusty graves finally abandoning.2

Then we wait for our life’s and works judgment,

Then we’ll receive our final, eternal assignment.

Way back in God’s garden, a Savior God promised to send.³

Mankind and devils alike wondered, ‘What did He intend?’

For centuries, on this Deliverer they waited,

As devils schemed, ‘Is this the one?’ mankind debated.⁴

When He appeared, even He had to wait for

‘His time’ to start,

So He could share with us from the recesses of

Father’s heart.

Once revealed, He waited to be slain as God’s lamb,

So we all could be freed from satan’s sin program.

He promised He would return to complete

redemption’s plan.

Since then, for two thousand years, Christians are

a ‘waiting clan’.

The rest of the world gave up, got tired of

this waiting game,

And now follow devil’s ‘get laid, get over, get rich’ flame.

Along the way, many Christians threw in the towel.

Of living by faith, they’ve become less and less thoughtful.

Pursuing instead this world’s timely, evil pleasures,

In exchange for promises of eternal treasures.

There is real work in hoping, trusting and waiting.

Those promises made long ago are still aging!

Friend, here’s a notion that is worth considering,

With time, things of great value ...are appreciating!

Here’s a thought worth pondering. It’s my affirmation:

‘Appreciating increases appreciation.’

Yep, esteeming enhances value of that which is esteemed.

Esteeming God’s promises means to you,

glory will be streamed.

So why all this waiting? To what are we all being drawn?

It’s right there in black and white, in the book

written by John.

It’s completion of God’s ‘army bride’, a great multitude,

Army of Heaven, bride of His Son, on earth they will rule!⁵

So of waiting if you’ve grown tired and weary,

C’mon! Get on board. You’ll become family.

You’ll receive Grace for the wait, and hope in the finále,

As you learn to wait for and on Jesus Christ …faithfully.

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¹ Psalm 37:9, 37:34, Isaiah 30:18, 40:31, 64:4

² Here’s the sequence: (1 Thessalonians 4:16, Revelation 19:5-6)

  --The dead in Christ will rise first. This is the first resurrection. 

  --Then Christ-believers who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

  --The rest of the (unbelieving) dead will not live again (arise and be judged) until the thousand year Millennial Reign of Christ is finished.

³ Genesis 3:15

⁴ Starting with Abel, devils schemed to kill many whom they thought might be ‘the one’.

⁵ Revelation 19:14 and 20:6. God is waiting for His army-bride to be complete, down to the last soul. Could that one be you??