DID YOU SAY, “I’M WAITING ON MY BLESSING?”

“Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.” – Woodrow Kroll Two individuals, walking down the grey pavement that provided a path from the Employee Parking Lot to the workplace. are engaged in a conversation. At some point, one of the individuals says, “I’m waiting on my blessing.”  Puzzled, the other person pauses for a moment....

BUT ME…

“But me, I’m not giving up. I’m sticking around to see what God will do. I’m waiting for God to make things right. I’m counting on God to listen to me.” (Micah 7:7 The Message Bible) Two little boys, one almost 5-years old, and one almost 2-years-old moved their wooden dining room chairs as close as they could the big picture window in the dining room. The vertical blinds...

WAITING FAITH

“I waited patiently for the Lord; and He reached down to me and heard my cry.” (Psalm 40:1 NASB) We know the definition of faith, learned it years ago when we were children, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” You noticed that I used the King James Version, but I did it on purpose. Because when we were children, we were not using bibles...

IN THE MEANTIME!

“Suddenly two men dressed in white clothes were standing there beside them.  They said, “Why are you men from Galilee standing here and looking up into the sky?” (Acts 1:10-11 Contemporary English Version) In response to Wednesday’s meditation, one faithful reader whom I have known since childhood, shared a prayer, so powerful that you would think you were in her presence as she...

WAIT FOR IT!

“And so, I am sure that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the Day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6 Good News Bible) Three houses down from my house, on the opposite side of the street, there lives a woman who faithfully, and quietly works on her front yard, every single day.  She’s planting flower, picking up debris, decorating it with...

“WAIT AND BETTER WILL SHOW UP”

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31 KJV) Twice this week I visited a physician.  As you know, the first things that take place at a visit is being weighed, having your temperature taken, and your assigned nurse gets a blood pressure...