Clay in the Hands

Wait! Chill out! Slow down!

For many of us, those words have become like the curse words we were taught as children not to say. I don’t like to wait – – and if someone tells me to “chill” it really aggravates me. I realize not all of us rush every where we go (that is obvious every time I get behind the person on the road who doesn’t seem to have any place to be or any specific time to be there). But even folks that don’t ever seem to be in a hurry don’t like to wait.

One of my readings this morning was from Luke 12:35-38. In this passage, Jesus tells us to wait but wait with ready expectation. Take a look at the passage here. We are to be like the servants awaiting the master’s return. He tells us that blessed are those who are ready.

Waiting on the Lord is not easy – especially for those of us who do not like to wait. But it is part of the Christian journey. Waiting reminds us that the world does not revolve around us. Waiting reinforces the idea that we are not the most important person in the world. Waiting turns our focus to the One who is the most important.

This Sunday, I will start a new sermon series titled, Heart Condition. We will be working through one of my favorite passages of scripture. For three Sunday’s we will go verse by verse through Psalm 51. Verse 12 of this chapter is part of the psalmist’s prayer: “grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.”

As I prayed through the passage from Luke this morning, and the idea of waiting, God’s response to me was to bring Psalm 51:12 to my mind. As I shared with the Father that I am waiting but it is not pleasant in some ways, His answer to me was “Wait – – and I will sustain you.”

Many reading this today are waiting on something – test results, an answer on which way to go, a new season of life – waiting. May God’s answer to me bring you rest as well – “Wait – – and I will sustain you.”