Wait! Don't you just love that four letter word? Waiting, not our favorite thing to do. Waiting takes up valuable moments and we have things to do, places to go, kingdoms to conquer and treasures to find. Waiting, what a waste of our valuable time. Waiting, I just don't have time for waiting.
Our pastor taught a great Bible Study one Wednesday evening on a topic that gives humans a really difficult time. The grammatical punctuation known as the 'Comma'. I remember a time in my journey through Junior High and High School when I used to sprinkle commas liberally through my writing. Of course, I always got those 'papers' back with about 85% of the commas circled in red and notated as 'not needed'.
Our pastor taught a great Bible Study one Wednesday evening on a topic that gives humans a really difficult time. The grammatical punctuation known as the 'Comma'. I remember a time in my journey through Junior High and High School when I used to sprinkle commas liberally through my writing. Of course, I always got those 'papers' back with about 85% of the commas circled in red and notated as 'not needed'.
The comma plays an important part in any written dissertation, telling us to pause. Sometimes that pause is required to consider what has already been said in relation to what is about to be disclosed. Sometimes that comma simply says 'wait a moment'.
Our lives sometimes have the same problem my high school essays suffered causing us to halt and stumble through life, making no progress because we are always waiting at a an unneeded comma. Sometimes our lives lack commas and thereby definition and form. Without the occassional comma, a pause to think about what has gone before and what is to come, our lives run rampant without purpose or goals. When we walk dependent upon God, He often answers our questions with a comma and we need to stop and listen before proceeding. God always answers though the answer may come with dependent conditions, commas, telling us to follow as He leads and He will provide and bless in His own time.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Psa. 27:14 Wait for the Lord; Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.
Our lives sometimes have the same problem my high school essays suffered causing us to halt and stumble through life, making no progress because we are always waiting at a an unneeded comma. Sometimes our lives lack commas and thereby definition and form. Without the occassional comma, a pause to think about what has gone before and what is to come, our lives run rampant without purpose or goals. When we walk dependent upon God, He often answers our questions with a comma and we need to stop and listen before proceeding. God always answers though the answer may come with dependent conditions, commas, telling us to follow as He leads and He will provide and bless in His own time.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Psa. 27:14 Wait for the Lord; Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.
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