Good Wednesday morning! The hot and dry weather has moved on and we may get some rain now. Did you get to run around shutting windows last night? I think that is one of my signs of spring, a sort of ritual of the evening. Sun goes down, open the windows to cool the house, go to bed, get a little sleepy... uh, oh, did I see a flash? Yup, the thunderstorms move in, the wet cold wind comes in erasing any sleepiness from my eyes, or the lightning strikes close enough to cause a tremendous thunderclap and levitation occurs. Either way, the windows get closed in a hurry. As summer arrives, the storms usually come earlier in the day for us. If the storms come like they did last year, we get our bailing buckets out and go help the neighbors save their homes; a good brisk evening workout that also erases any trace of sleepiness from our eyeballs. A small storm is going on right now in my house. I'm not sure what set the Captain off, but he is tearing around the place this morning. Must have been some good stuff in that can of cat food!
I have a picture of the sunrise on my computer screen, but that isn't happening this morning. Yet, it doesn't quite look like rain either. The day seems undecided, kind of like me. Have you made yourself available to the Lord, and then...nothing. No word from above, no opportunity came knocking, no event happened, no meeting met, and a cloud of waiting settled on your head like a bag of soggy dryer lint? You have begun to wonder what the Lord meant by being available and if it is just like rotting in place. You banish that thought as unworthy, but waiting can be difficult and patience hard to find. Yes, sometimes the Lord wants us on hold or in reserve. Some events critical to the Lord's plan have not arrived yet and we are to wait for those events. However, the Lord doesn't always tell us this. I think He wants to see how well we wait on Him. And I don't always do very well.
Waiting on the Lord and trusting in Him are closely related when we are in that period of waiting. We learn to wait patiently by realizing that God has us in mind at all times and that His plans and actions might not involve you and me directly for just a bit. As that bit of time stretches on, the waiting can become more difficult if we insist on looking everywhere but to God. Trusting in God, we realize that we are waiting for a reason. God may not tell us the reason, but we learn to trust that the waiting is necessary. Of course this may not mean that we wait by sitting on our couch watching the door between commercials! We have little planes to fly, yards to landscape, people to visit, shopping to do, Bible studies to study, and the many other things that are useful and glorifying to God.
Have a joyful and productive day in Christ, even while you wait!
Bucky
No comments:
Post a Comment