Listen to this,
"for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' So we can confidently say, 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?'"
No doubt about it...the Lord is faithful! He is stuck to me like glue with his faithfulness. When I'm pulling my hair out, he's faithful. When I'm going bonkers, he's faithful. When I'm bored...yep...he's faithful. It's probably within those long stretches, when nothing seems to be happening, good or bad, that many of us tend to start wondering what happened to God. He's like adrenaline to us. We either have to be able to turn to him when we're freaked, or feel a surge of the "Joy of the Lord" when we're blessed.
I am always hearing someone say, "Pastor, God is about to do something big!" I like that. It says people are projecting their faith. But the big never seems to happen. Either I am missing God and his plan, or we are projecting our faith too far into the future.
What is the Lord doing in the here-and-now...when nothing seems to be breaking loose...when a revival seems far away...when boredom lurks? I am learning that these are the moments when God's faithfulness is demonstrated and proven. I find that he is concerned with being glorified in me, and you, more than he is with our definition of a 'move of God.' Hmmm He is faithful when nothing seems to be happening. ("Seems" is the key word.) I wonder if that shouldn't be what defines our faithfulness as well. In other words, is God stuck with us, too?
Ponder on that for a bit.
Pastor Jim
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Perhaps we should not so much invite God to be in our meetings, but just bring Him along when we come! Since He dwells in all of us. And the "big thing" maybe it is there, just waiting for your receivers to tune in. Just a thought
Although God is in yesterday, today and tomorrow, He identifies Himself as "I am." Always in the present tense. I'm done waiting for God to do a "big thing" just around the corner. He is the God of TODAY!
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