Reason #951

Sometimes being prepared, or maybe I should say forewarned, is nice. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes knowing what lies ahead can cause much stress and anxiety. This is especially true if what lies ahead could end badly. You know what I mean. Sometimes you just get this feeling, this premonition, about how things could possibly turn out, and you wish you just didn't know. Ignorance is bliss, right? If you didn't see it coming, then at least you wouldn't have spent time worrying. You could have obliviously gone about your ways and just been unpleasantly surprised. But the truth is, that option really isn't a whole lot better anyway. And so there's this fine line between being forewarned and being paranoid, and I find myself walking it.

I know fear isn't from the Lord, and I know full well that I shouldn't worry. Like Jesus said in Matthew 6, "Don't worry about tomorrow. Today has enough troubles of its own." Amen to that, right? Today certain does hold enough troubles of its own, but it's hard not to worry. It's hard not to be concerned about the unknown that might potentially become the well known. And I have to remind myself in times like these to simply focus on what I do know rather than what I don't know.

I have decided
I have resolved
To wait upon You, Lord

My rock and redeemer
Shield and reward
I'll wait upon You, Lord

As surely as the sun will rise
You'll come to us
Certain as the dawn appears

You'll come
Let Your glory fall as You respond to us
Spirit rain
Flood into our thirsty hearts again
You'll come, You'll come

We are not shaken
We are not moved
We wait upon You, Lord

Mighty deliverer
Triumph and truth
We wait upon You, Lord

As surely as the sun will rise
You'll come to us
Certain as Your word endures

You'll come
Let Your glory fall as You respond to us
Spirit rain
Flood into our thirsty hearts again
You'll come, You'll come

Chains be broken
Lives be healed
Eyes be opened
Christ is revealed

 

 

I know that Jesus will come. I know that He is going to respond. I know that He is a mighty deliverer. I know that He will open eyes, break chains, and heal lives. And I'm praying that He does it soon. I'm asking that He will intervene and rescue. That truth will be made known and the veil that covers so many blind eyes would fall off. And I'm praying that He would act swiftly, justly, and mercifully. That He would be a shield to those in time of need and reward their faithfulness. That He would quench thirsty hearts and revive weary ones. That transformation would begin to sweep across every nation and revival would break forth. I am praying that His glory would fall and it would not go unnoticed. That His name would be made great and His power would be revealed. And I know that these things will come to pass. I know that one day every knee will bow and confess that He is Lord. And I know that whatever happens between now and then will be according to His sovereign plan. And so we wait. We wait upon the Lord. We pray and we anticipate His response because only He knows how it is going to go from here. He is the only one who can fix it, who can make right the wrongs, and who can change the course we're on. And so we ask, Jesus, that you would come. Come rescue, come bind up brokenness, come heal, come comfort, come save the lost, come encourage the weary, come uphold the weak, come guide us, come help us, and come save us. Jesus, we need you to come.

 

#951 - Because we know that He will come and we anticipate it.

 

"Look, a righteous king is coming! And honest princes will rule under him. Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land. Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it." - Isaiah 32:1-3