It is the 12th day of our lockdown and we are waiting, so many of us, to see when, if, or how the virus will come right up and maybe into us. Until recently, everything was sort of far away, in the news, first on the other side of the planet, then on the other side of the country, but always affecting faraway people. But inevitably word starting getting around that there were people infected in our province, then in our little town, and recently some in our very own building. In fact, today another good friend was confirmed as having the Coronavirus, and it seems to be swirling around all over. At the same time, much of the world also waits, entire countries in fact, wondering not so much if, but when, the virus will reach them… and how hard it will hit. And though some kinds of waiting we may find simply annoying, others, like this one, are definitely more scary.
How good to know that there is Someone out there — no, Someone right here with us—who does not have to wait. He lives in eternity. He sees the past, and present, and future just as easily as if they were one. No, we can’t understand that, nor were we meant to, any more than our two year old granddaughter should be expected to understand the difference between today and the first day of next month. If we ask her to wait, we hope she will do simply that, without working herself into a frenzy trying to understand it. For one thing, it won’t help her at all, and will probably make things somewhat worse.
Jesus explains our faith for salvation in terms of childlike faith. He also tells us to wait on Him on a day by day basis, and that if we do, it will strengthen our heart. Any of us who have walked for many years with the Lord, have seen that proven to be true. When we have waited on God, and let Him do things in His own way and time, the final result was usually quite awesome. And we came out on the other side with a much stronger heart.
This is exactly the kind of attitude we need right now for these very special and threatening days of medical and economic crisis.
Here is the command, not the suggestion:
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Psalm 27:1
How good to know that there is Someone out there — no, Someone right here with us—who does not have to wait. He lives in eternity. He sees the past, and present, and future just as easily as if they were one. No, we can’t understand that, nor were we meant to, any more than our two year old granddaughter should be expected to understand the difference between today and the first day of next month. If we ask her to wait, we hope she will do simply that, without working herself into a frenzy trying to understand it. For one thing, it won’t help her at all, and will probably make things somewhat worse.
Jesus explains our faith for salvation in terms of childlike faith. He also tells us to wait on Him on a day by day basis, and that if we do, it will strengthen our heart. Any of us who have walked for many years with the Lord, have seen that proven to be true. When we have waited on God, and let Him do things in His own way and time, the final result was usually quite awesome. And we came out on the other side with a much stronger heart.
This is exactly the kind of attitude we need right now for these very special and threatening days of medical and economic crisis.
Here is the command, not the suggestion:
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Psalm 27:1
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