Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak.
Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
I am sick at heart.
How long, O Lord, until you restore me?
Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
I am sick at heart.
How long, O Lord, until you restore me?
Psalm 6:2-3(NLT)
There is almost nothing harder on your inner self than
waiting.
At the moment Elizabeth and I are awaiting the verdict
on a house problem. It seems some time
ago our shower drain decided to break, leaking water into the crawl space under
the house. Now, when you add moisture to
a dark place that has lots of insulation and wooden joists for food, you create
a perfect storm for mold to take over like Methodist locusts at a dinner on the
grounds.
That this could go undetected for a long time…months…is
evidence of my sanity; what sane man crawls under his house to check the
humidity? Especially when you have to
fight the spiders and snakes to do so!
The first two estimates about remediating the algae on
steroids were enough to make the national debt disappear….or my shingles
return.
We are waiting on the third guy now.
Waiting.
Did I say we are waiting?
The waiting room is an awful place.
David, suffering the consequences of his sins, waited
in agony for the Lord to heal his brokenness of spirit.
John the Baptist waited in prison for his cousin,
Jesus to vindicate all that preaching John had done in the wilderness to
vindicate him.
Elijah waited under a broom tree to die because he was
afraid of Jezebel’s fury.
Paul waited in a jail under threat of execution.
Waiting is tough business.
And so, we say, How Long O Lord?
And God answers:
my grace is sufficient for whatever you need, boy.
And then we hear Paul, faithful servant, waiting:
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about
everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Philippians 4:6(NLT)
And so, we will!
For You Today
Waiting got you by the throat?
Listen to your very good friend, Paul.
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