The WAITING room is filled.
You arrive early & so does everyone else.
You start the WAIT.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
You are still WAITING
as there is nothing else left for you to do
as time is not in your control
as you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT.
WAIT~
"to stay where one is or delay action until a particular time
or until something else happens." (Google)
BUT
what if GOD'S plan is the
WAIT
because you have no choice but to
WAIT WITH GOD?
Today we remember the
BIGGEST WAIT
as
JESUS is in the tomb.
Quietness fills the land as
their
JESUS,
our
JESUS
is no longer seen.
Questions arise~
If HE is our MESSIAH, where is HE now?
What do you do now?
You WAIT
even though you may feel
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
with nothing that you can do.
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT
feels paralyzing
because there is nothing to do,
but to
TRUST GOD
that
HE WILL do what HE said HE WILL do
&
when HE would do it.
But TRUSTING GOD,
at times,
sounds like you are giving up,
when actually you are
GIVING UP
as it is
SURRENDERING
your WILL for HIS WILL.
And oh the beauty of
WAITING
when you are
WAITING with the ONE who said
"after three days HE will rise" (Mark 9:31).
How are you when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT?
Do you forget what GOD has said?
Do you forgot what JESUS has done?
Do you forget that JESUS is with you always
especially when you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT?
WAITING
for the something to happen that you have
WAITING to happen for
some time.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Do you FEARFULLY WAIT
that
maybe just maybe IT won't happen.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Do you ANXIOUSLY WAIT,
for at least you are doing something
by being ANXIOUS
when there is nothing else you can do.
Do you feel "STUCK" IN THE MIDDLE of WAIT?
But
Where is JESUS?
HE is there.
In the tomb
WAITING for GOD'S PERFECT TIMING
when GOD’S power will raise HIM.
JESUS hasn’t gone anywhere where HE wasn’t supposed to go.
HE was just following HIS FATHER'S WILL
so we could follow our FATHER'S WILL
even when we are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
because
JESUS did RISE in three days
&
we will RISE above whatever keeps us
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE.
JESUS was
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE
on the cross
in-between two criminals while
HE was
in the MIDDLE OF WAIT
when
a conversation took place~
The criminal looked to JESUS and said,
"JESUS, remember me when YOU come in YOUR kingdom!"
And JESUS responded,
"Truly I say to you, today you shall be with ME in Paradise" (Luke 23:42-43)
I bet the criminal was glad that it was
JESUS who was STUCK IN THE MIDDLE,
because now he would
WAIT
with
PEACE
JOY
&
HOPE,
no longer
STUCK
because
he trusted
THE ONE
in the MIDDLE.
It is in our
TRUSTING GOD
IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT
when we are able to
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" (Romans 12:12)
because
it isn’t about what you are WAITING for,
as it is about
experiencing the
PEACE OF GOD
in the midst of
your WAIT.
We have to remain
STUCK to GOD
because that is where we will experience
HIS PEACE
HIS JOY
& HIS LOVE
that covers all the fears and anxiety found
in the WAITING room.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
PATIENTLY WAITING
because
"after three days HE will rise" (Mark 9:31).
HE WILL RISE
in this moment of time
because HE DID RISE
in that moment of time
when the land was quiet,
so very quiet
as the MAN who claimed to be the SAVIOR
was asleep in the tomb.
The same MAN who was
asleep in the boat,
yet was still so awake
after HIS fearful disciples
"woke HIM and said to HIM, 'Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?'” (Mark 4:38).
BUT JESUS is never asleep,
as the moment HE was awake
"HE said to his disciples, 'Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?'” (Mark 4:40)
Even on that Saturday when HE was in the tomb.
Even in this moment of time if you are
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WAIT.
Oh what are the cries of your heart in your WAIT?
Let's continue to look to
THE ONE
Who patiently WAITED
three days in the tomb
so that
HE would RISE
in
GOD'S perfect timing
because
HE always does
what HE says HE will do
so we can
"Be joyful always"
as we
"Pray continuously"
and as we
"Give thanks in all circumstances"
for this is GOD'S will for you in CHRIST JESUS (I Thessalonians 5:16-18).
For
SUNDAY always comes
because
JESUS DID RISE
and that my friend is
"AN EASTER HALLELUJAH"
(listen to the song below)