February 18, 2015
God Is Waiting
Recently two vandals were
caught on video destroying a large statue of St. Francis of Assisi, but unfortunately
their identity is not yet known. During an interview the pastor of the church said
his only reaction must be one of offering God’s forgiveness, “I want them to
know that God is waiting for them.” Certainly the pastor’s thoughts are
appropriate and aligned with God, but it does cross my mind that if they fail
to seek forgiveness, God will still be waiting for them!
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Gail;
-----God is waiting. What a giant statement. And you’ve shown the span of it. There will be that day, as you say, where His reality will no more be deniable by an individual. To most unbelievers (some unbelievers are not unbelievers as much as they are disagree-rs) that would be either the day of death or of His return. Although many of us who believe and agree know of His reality, there is much more of it to be realized than the closest of us to Him have realized. Do we think He might want us to realize Him more? I think so.
-----So I think such ideas as, “An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge,” (Prov 18:16) is about realizing Him more. Atheists are sure to castigate Christian belief in God by the very science Christians discovered while seeking further into their belief. These earlier Christians understood that one of several ways to know an artist was to know his works.
-----Wise young people set a course for their lives early. I became active in my new life (as opposed to passive) during my Senior year of High School. It was rather a meeting of two issues. I had been pondering my life course and had determined that the way I could make it the broadest in meaning was if I would make it a course of studying life. That’s when I laid claim to being a student of life. Shortly thereafter, some of my acquaintances and my sister began involving themselves in this growing movement of young people into a Grand Junction Pentecostal church. It made sense to me that the Master of Life, the Creator and Savior of Life was probably a pretty good instructor for a student of life. So, as my mind had been going in that direction, I took this movement as Life laying for me the early direction of my study’s course.
-----There have been times over the years I have wondered why I should bother myself with pursuing interesting directions indicated by interesting discoveries. As I approached sixty it began dawning upon me that carefully gleaning more knowledge from life’s meadows of weeds when measured by correspondence to His Word better clarified the details of what He’s made and has done and is doing. And since I can’t sit down and talk with Him face to face like Moses did, then the next best way of drawing more intimate with Him was to draw more intimate with what He’s made, especially with the people He makes.
-----The things hidden in the woodwork around us testifying to His reality are astounding. The story they speak of these tumultuous times and the trajectories they indicate current history will make are alerting. God awaited our decision. He awaits our actions. He awaits our growth and development, our realizations, and our continuous construction of faith on the foundation He laid. He awaits because we are embedded in time while He is also at the end, which too is a beginning.
-----Nevertheless, I am beginning to learn that this current moment is the moment He’s been awaiting, though it will fade into the next, which too will be the moment He’s awaited. Because time is always now though history flows through it, the time for my greatest intimacy with Him is now, the time for my greatest faith, and knowledge, and discernment, and action is now. The time He’s always awaited is now in as much as that glorious day after Judgment and all eternity following it will soon be now.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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