And Yet We Wait

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The poem of the month for October is ‘And Yet We Wait’.  These words deal with having patience and waiting for God’s perfect will even if it is taking too long.  We are often tempted to be like Sarah, Abraham’s wife and help God’s plan along because with each month that passes we get older and older knowing that we would never be able to bear a child.

We wait for prayers to be answered; graduation day; the perfect job; husbands to marry; purchasing our first home, working in the ministry and the list goes on. We know that just beyond the bend we will see the Promised Land.

You said you know all that we need, You promised that we would not want, You said you would supply all our needs, You promised to be sufficient. We trust your mercy Lord, We trust your loving kindness, We trust your never failing compassion, And yet we wait… From Poem of the Month – And Yet We Wait

The secret to waiting on God is not to be idle as we wait.  As the ten servants were told after they were given the money in Luke 19:13, ‘put this money to work until I come back.’  As we live in the present, work in the present and shine our lights in the present we are preparing for the future that God has in store for us. In his sovereignty, he sees the whole picture and sometimes the blessings he has in store for us can only be fully appreciated when we allow his grace to prepare us and build our character as we wait.

Isaiah 40:31 tells us that when we wait on the Lord that he renews our strength, when we run we will not grow weary and when we walk we will not faint. May God teach us how to wait.

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Saying Goodbye

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The card of the month for October is ‘Saying Goodbye’.  Usually those two words bring to mind loss, sadness and sometimes tears.

As children we remember moving away from our childhood homes and leaving our best friends behind. We just knew that we will never get over the pain and never have another best friend. Fast forward three months and we are doing just fine with new best friends and a whole new life. How quickly we rebound!

As teenagers our hearts got twisted into pretzels as we fell in love and with each break-up we listened to sad songs as tears flowed freely lamenting what we will never have: ‘happily ever after’.

We go through life experiencing the season of ‘saying goodbye’.  We have lost friends, husbands, parents, children, jobs, homes and the list goes on, but we have learned to deal with each loss through tears and sadness and we get up after each loss and keep on living. We can’t erase the memories; we never forget the fun times, sometimes we go back into the past to remember, we visit the gravesides, we write letters and we keep on going.

Dear friends, if you are going through a season of ‘saying goodbye’ right now just remember that:

God knows the ache in your heart. Do not allow discouragement and despair to take over. Rest in the assurance that He understands what you are going through.   One day you will smile again. One day you will know the reasons why. One day you will wake up and feel like living again.  From Card of the Month – Saying Goodbye

 

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Good News

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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”  Isaiah 52:7

There is nothing more uplifting than ‘good news’.  The phone call from the doctor’s office with a normal test result; the call from the interviewer offering you the job you wanted; the email from a friend checking in to say ‘hi’; the bouquet of flowers from a secret admirer who is not so secret and the list goes on… How encouraging to our hearts is good news!

Good news is like long awaited raindrops on the parched desert wasteland. Our souls come alive when we hear good news. As the Fall season approaches, we are filled with anticipation - the slight chill in the air; the leaves turning yellow and gold, reminders that the Thanksgiving and Christmas season is approaching.  

The season when our hearts and minds turn to the wonderful gift of redemption.  God becoming man bringing the good tidings of salvation. In the midst of the turmoil and conflicts we can loudly proclaim, ‘Our God reigns’

 

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