God gives you a promise, or a word. Something for you and your future. So often throughout the bible, God promises something, to give a hope and a future, a husband, or wife, a child, a promised land, a messiah, freedom from slavery. So often, the people receiving that promise have to wait. And wait. Sometimes way beyond realities of when it could humanly and naturally happen, and sometimes too, beyond their very lives.
I have been so challenged by this, and living this out here and now. In places that call for boundaries, healthy relationships,reasonable, and seeing results,where is the place for waiting and trusting solely in Gods promises beyond the reasonable and human reality. Even in Christian circles,we are often encouraged to take action, do what we can, and yes,there's a place for that, such a place for working with God and journeying with Him in the process. But we don't often have a theology for it, or a framework from which to base ourselves in. It's a very wide, grey area, and can be so easy to put two and two together and come up with a whole new result that can be completely different to God's place, purely because we want to know the answer, or understand Gods plan in the situation. Seriously. How do you journey with it if it's not something that will happen in your lifetime?!?
So, we wait, we trust, we listen really hard for his voice. We pray and give thanks to him who loves us so dearly. But we stand ready and expect the breakthrough, and look forward to receiving all the promises, and seeing all that God has promised lived out in our life.
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