28 April 2011
Luke 12:35-36 "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.”
After Easter Jesus Christ told the disciples to wait. One of the hardest things to do is to wait, to wait for something to happen, to wait for someone that is late. The discipline of waiting is not one that Christians practise today, we all seem to want things to happen at our pace instead of God’s. As we wait during this period, we wait and pray with expectation, an expectation that God will do an extraordinary thing through our prayers.
It is also a time of preparation, a time where we reflect and are cleansed through our prayers and the Easter celebrations, a time of preparation with expectation. Just as the Israelites waited for Moses after the Passover and his meeting with God on the mountain, to receive the Ten Commandments, so we wait for the Holy Spirit to be refreshed, renewed and revealed in us at Pentecost. On Ascension Day for the Israelites the law came down, and on that same day Jesus Christ ascended into heaven taking the burden of the law off all those who believed and followed Him. Ten days later Pentecost occurs, where the Holy Spirit was given to all those who follow Jesus Christ.
Be encouraged today to wait and pray for God’s mighty power to be revealed in His Church today.
Point to ponder: Wait on God.
Question to consider: Are you able to wait patiently?
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