Hebrews 4:15 NKJV
"For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin."
I asked God a really dumb question this week:" Do you really understand the agony of a "wait" for us humans here on earth? "
I meant no disrespect, thought I had all my reasoning together. I thought about how much easier a wait would be for us if we already knew the outcome & the exact time our blessing would unfold. Because you & I wait blindly. We do not know when or how or sometimes even "if". So we wait & wonder.
But God brought this verse to me. He is not a High Priest who cannot understand our waiting. He came here on earth, knowing the end of His earthly life would result in the crucifiction, and He waited 33 years to see it unfold. He knew His time would be short here & He waited 30 years for His appointed hour to begin His ministry here- He waited. That dark night as the end drew near, He prayed alone in the garden til His sweat turned to blood while everyone else fell asleep & waited for His accusers to kill Him. As He hung on a cross, He suffered ridicule & shame ,& the weight of every sin the world would ever commit, He waited to die as His Father had to turn away from Him . . . He waited. As He entered death & the grave to defeat the devil, He waited to be ressurected on that 3rd day.
Day after day, He extends His invitation for us to accept - accept His salvation, accept His companionship every morning, accept His will for our life. He waits. And He knows the outcome. He know many of us will never accept. He knows many will choose hell instead through disbelief. He waits.
God knows what lies ahead of us, the good & the bad. Some things we are better not knowing, we would loose joy of the good for dreading the bad. Our waits are easier for God because despite our misery, He designed the purpose within the wait. One day we will see that purpose too.
