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Sunday... But we are the waiters...


Sunday... Back when we could we would go to a restaurant and there was this person who would come to take our order and they were called a waiter. But we were the waiters and that is what we are today. And it is so difficult, isn't it?

I was reading Psalm 130 this morning and I found this verse, verse 5 (NIV), "I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope" That is all it seems we do. We wait for them to see what we need to do to keep from getting this virus. We wait then for symptoms so we can go get tested to see if we have it. We wait for a vaccine to be created, to be tested and then to be given. We wait for the election, then for the results, then for the changes. we wait for 2020 to be over and then for 2021 to start. Our whole being waits and here is the key, "and in his word I put my hope."

Job in the OT had lost everything, his kids, his livestock, his wealth and his health. But he didn't lose these friends who came over to "encourage" him. We have a lot of those kind of friends today. They have all of these negative ideas that are really discouraging. Do you ever listen to the news? Do you read everything that these friends write on Facebook or Twitter? We can get so discouraged and afraid, can't we? 

And that was what was happening to Job. Chapter 19 verses 21 and 22 (MSG) says, "Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me! Do you have to be hard on me? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?" That's what I want to say to all this negative junk that is being handed out today.

But then he says, here is his resolve that is keeping his head up, that is bringing him through it all, verses 25-27 (NLT), "But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I will be overwhelmed at that thought!"

I will not be discouraged but "I will be overwhelmed at that thought!"  I love that!

Psalm 130:5&6 in the MESSAGE says, "I am counting on the Lord; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word. I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn."

Now that is Who I am putting my hope in, Who I am waiting on! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



 


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