WAITING

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 I know you will be shocked, but waiting/patience has not been a strong character of mine. The resounding "amens" that you hear rocking the sound waves are the voices of both husbands, PAST AND PRESENT, my sons, and my past students! Ps. 130:1-5 "Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope."
 
I have to know what a word means in the Hebrew or the Greek. The word picture for wait is the extension of a cord from one point to another...GOD-------my heart. Some things on my prayer concern lists, I have waited...not patiently of course, and so the time seems to lengthen, but God is faithful. In HIS Sovereign Purview, He has done what is good for David and good for our family. I will wait for the pain to become good and fruitful to HIS glory.
 
Don't know about you, but I rejoice that HE does not keep a record of our sins..."YOU will again have compassion on us; YOU will thread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea." Micah 7:15 (Marianna's trench: about 7 miles deep.) No more rehearsing of personal failures, sins, failures of others, their sins toward me, mine toward them. FORGIVEN...THE POWER OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS TO COVER ALL MY SINS! What is even more exciting is that HE welcomes us to our eternal home with HIM. Only those who have said, "Yes, Lord, I receive you as Savior and Lord." He only accepts the flawed, the finite, the fragile, and the broken....we, who are willing to humble ourselves. MY hope/confidence is HIS WORD/TRUTH.
I will push back on long and lengthy posts soon. GOTTA TELL SOMEBODY ABOUT THE GRACE OF THE LORD. #IHAVETHREESONS

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