“This
one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands.” Genesis
5:29
Do you ever feel like you spend your
whole life waiting? We make an appointment at three and get in at four thirty.
The contractor says two weeks which stretch to ten. Your car is promised for
tomorrow, but they got the wrong part; it will be another week. We wait and
wonder when we will get what we have been waiting for. That is what the days of
Noah were like. At his birth it was prophesied that he would bring rest, but it
was a long, long time coming.
What happens when we wait and are
disappointed? We get focused on other things. We choose other options. We
abandon the greater hope we had for a lesser hope we can create. This is what
happens too often while we await the return of Christ. We forget the bigger
promise and live in the less fulfilling smaller agendas we can control. Jesus
said to watch and wait and to live focused on Him while we do.
Dear Father, Help us not to lose our
focus of the precious return of Christ. Amen.
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