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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’, a
great multitude,
Army
of Heaven, for 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 to be complete, down to the last soul. Could that one be you??
