Things to Come

A friend of mine tells me that she thinks that I am favoured, highly favoured. Favour has to do with doors being opened for you without your effort, or even at times without you asking for them to be opened. It can also refer to a situation where certain harmful paths are blocked on your behalf so that you don’t go through stuff that would hurt you. A favour is something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration. Looking at my life over the past few months, I guess I AM truly favoured. There are opportunities that I would not have dreamt of a year ago, that are now an approaching reality. There are certain things that I was kept from, because I know I would have gone for them if it was up to me.

I don’t know how you look at life in general or your life in particular. Some of us have had a rough time growing up, and some of us still experience great hardship just getting through the day. Perhaps you live in a household where everything is provided for materially but the love you crave is absent. Maybe you get all the love you could ever need but still sleep hungry, or partially satisfied. We all have things in our lives that we wish we could change, and we can be sure that God knows these things.

Reading through Hebrews, we see a High Priest who is familiar with our weaknesses and who knows what it’s like to be tempted, abused, mocked, cheered, jeered and deserted. In spite of all He went through, He still stands as the Mediator between us and the Father. In spite of all we have done, are doing, or will do, He is still faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Isn’t it strange that considering the vastness of the fellowship we could have with Him, that we are satisfied with small bits of Him? We could have such a banquet, yet we are sated by spoonfulls. I would love to experience what the Apostles had, and I know that they put in the work. As much as there was grace, they also prayed, fasted and waited on God. They didn’t just claim promises, they went after the Promise-Giver. What would happen if the church as we know it today would abandon the material things we so crave to seek hard after God? I believe that in so doing, we would be seeking His kingdom and His righteousness and all those other things we thought were so important would gain their right perspective; mere add-onns in a very temporal state of existence.

See you at the foot of the King, there is much prayer to be done.