Wait For It

 

  As one of our poets has said “the waiting is the hardest part”.

  It seems we are always wanting something to be here sooner. Kids want Christmas to come sooner. Parents want the vacation to be here faster. Everyone wants this year to be over.

  Yet time, as random as it seems, still advances at the same pace it always has. Yet when we want something to be here it, time seems to crawl. When we are dreading it, the clock seems to speed up.

  So how do we feel about Judgment day?

  I've noticed how many times Christ's return in scriptures is described in terms like “eagerly wait” and “looking for” (Romans 8:25 Ephesians 3:20, Titus 2:13). The cry is for the Lord to come and to come quickly. They can hardly wait.

  It's not maybe the same attitude I see today. Christ’s return is viewed as a worry sometimes. We try to keep it off our minds for fear that it might come even faster than we are expecting. We want it to stay in the distance hoping it won’t come anytime soon.

 Does this attitude say something about the level of our faith? Do we have the belief that we claim if the thought of Christ's return fills us with dread rather than excitement? Are we longing for heaven or worried about losing this world?

Christ’s return is coming even if the date isn’t on our calendar.

 How are we waiting for it?