SSMT: Verse 23

Two more verses in this year's journey of Scripture. I'm looking forward to (after I know the last verse) going back to see how they all fit together. God's been good!

Last Sunday I visited a church and the pastor started a sermon series for Advent - focusing on the places of Advent, rather than the people. The first stop was a place called Qumran. Yeah, I'd not heard of it either. Apparently it was an ancient city that ended up in ruins before Jesus came, yet many scrolls of Isaiah were found there. Isaiah, as you might know, is often quoted in the Advent season, because he prophesied many things about the birth of Jesus.

The pastor's point was sometimes...you're in a time of waiting and it feels like life goes into ruins before an answer ever comes. Boy I've been there! (Sometimes...say when I'm waiting for my house to sell??...I still feel like I'm there!)

One of the verses he read to us Sunday was this:

And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. - Isaiah 40:5

I have no idea when or how God plans to sell my house. But there's a part of me that believes when that happens...God's going to reveal some glory. (And He should. It will take divine intervention to sell a house in this market!) And while I really just want the thing to sell - I also really want Him to get glory in the revealing.

I remember in the desert...there was a period of time when I clung to something I read (in Angie Smith's book I Will Carry You) about the time when God shouts "NOW!!" She referred to the resurrection of Lazarus, but I made it my own for Isaac in his journey through the wilderness. I needed to believe God had already shouted "NOW!" to bring him out of his wilderness.

And when I read this verse, I came back to that thought. Who knows but what God has already shouted "NOW!!" to sell my house...and wheels are in motion...but I just can't see it yet?

And yet one day that answer will be revealed, and I'll see it...and so will those around me...and God is going to get some PRAISE!

So that's what I need right now...to know that He has spoken.