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8 Feb 2008

Waiting for God to ...!

There's a well-known play, by Samuel Beckett, entitled Waiting for Godot. If you don't know it, then a search on the web will tell you as much as you want to know! Maybe it's just my warped mind; or maybe it's genuinely lateral thinking, but everytime I see the title, I want to change the order of the letters in the name, and make the title read Waiting for God to ...!
The idea cropped up, again, at Thursday evening's prayer meeting in Liberty Community Church, Bellshill. We had been reminded that Jesus often spent time, alone, in prayer. And it wasn't just for a few minutes, or even an hour or two. Sometimes we read of Him spending a whole night in prayer! (see, e.g. Luke 6:12). It occurred to me that He would not have spent that length of time going through a list of "prayer requests", however worthy they might have been. Indeed, I cannot imagine that He spent all of that time talking at all. I am quite certain that a lot of the time was spent just waiting for Father God to reveal more of His will for the Son.
Of course, if I am correct, it does beg the question "How much time do I spend simply Waiting for God to ..."?
If the Son needed to spend time waiting upon the Father, then surely I need to spend more time following His example! Some of us live such busy lives, cramming all that we can into every passing minute, that we tend to forget that we are human beings, not human doings.
The old hymnwriter had the right idea when he urged us to "Take time to be holy, the world rushes on; Spend much time in secret with Jesus alone." And if we let more of that time be a waiting upon Him for guidance and direction; in ever-deepening worship; then we shall grow more like Him, and draw others to Him that they might receive the salvation that He offers to all who repent,and believe.

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