Monday, May 25, 2015

We Wait

Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

We WAIT.
We wait for the glorious day when we as sons of God are MANIFESTED as such.
We WAIT.
In waiting there is a hope or a fear, perhaps a boredom, while waiting.  We all know what it means to wait for things. It's a good guess that right now you are waiting for something. It could be simply waiting for an upcoming event. Waiting for a phone call. Waiting for a package. Waiting for a party. Waiting for a special occasion. Waiting for a text. Waiting for an appointment. Waiting for the next hour. Waiting for a show. Waiting for well, any number of things.
We WAIT.
We are often taught not to like to wait because it keeps us from doing things we want to do.  We don't like waiting in doctor offices, at stop lights, in government offices - drivers licenses, permits, etc. We don't like waiting in grocery lines or lines of any sort especially slow ones.
Even when we are waiting for good things, things we are anticipating, we don't always like the wait.
So why should waiting for the manifestation of our sonship with God to be realized at the second coming of our Savior, be any different for us at all?

Heb_6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Rom_2:7  To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life

Jas_5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain

Jas_5:8  Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Luk_21:19  In your patience possess ye your souls.

Rom_8:25  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Rom_15:4  For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

2Co_6:4  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses

1Th_1:3  Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father

Heb_6:12  That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Heb_10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Heb_12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us

Jas_1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing

Rev_3:10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev_14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Patience…

Waiting takes patience.

More on this tomorrow…. By the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ our LORD.

Amen.

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