Reveal IT

I was sitting with some friends on Thursday night and I made the comment, “God will reveal it….”. I paused for a minute while my friend, Gwen, said something along the lines of, “That’s kind of your word.”  

Reveal.

Since then I’ve been thinking about the truth of her statement.  Why is that word such a familiar and comforting word in my vocabulary? I’m not a very PATIENT person.  Brandon chuckled at me one day in the mall as I struggled to understand the details of the mall directory.  I guess I’d rather just see and experience the big picture rather than struggle to take the time to sort out the details, even if that means more walking or a wrong turn here and there.

 

Ironically, one of my favorite scriptures has become Isaiah 40:30-31:

“Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, Yet those who WAIT for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.”

There’s that word.  Wait. Or Trust. Or Hope. Those who WAIT (HOPE, TRUST) will gain new strength…..

So doesn’t it beg the question, “What am I WAITING, HOPING, TRUSTING for the Lord to DO?”

PERSEVERANCE is actually defined in the Greek language as “patient enduring”….”waiting”. We quit too soon. Don’t we?  A relationship gets tough, we find a new one.  A friend says something in truth, we pull back.  A leader rubs us the wrong way, we look for a new leader. Our life gets tough….we search for an escape.  We quit too soon.

Being in labor is all about waiting.  Waiting for that moment when the much anticipated is finally REVEALED. I love thinking about my newborn before she was NEW BORN.  I mean, she literally had to WAIT for each contraction, she couldn’t do ANYTHING except WAIT for IT. And with each contraction the tension and excitement (and PAIN) mounted.  All she could do was wait. I can picture the God I know and love, guiding her every move, in eager anticipation to REVEAL to Brandon and I this perfect gift and to REVEAL to Banner her first breath. “Keep going”, He whispers to both of us…quietly.

As I picture His JOY in the revealing of her new life…. I can also imagine that in every circumstance in our lives He is smiling behind His providence in the same eager anticipation to REVEAL to us what is next.  Sometimes IT is painful.  Sometimes IT is pleasurable.  But whatever the IT is….I can assure you IT ends in our JOY and HIS GLORY.  It has to THIS is His nature.

Revelation.

Our nature is to quit too soon. But scripture is clear…..THOSE WHO WAIT UPON THE LORD will gain new strength, THEY will mount up with wings like eagles, THEY will run and not get tired, THEY will walk and not become weary.”

And when they keep going IT will be REVEALED.