What are we waiting for?

Short, thought-provoking, challenging, and motivating. Those are some of the words that come to my mind when I think about the impact I hope that this post has. The main point is centered around what are we waiting for?

What are we waiting for to make Christ the single most important thing in our life? What are we waiting for to admit and recognize that we need Christ?

Most of what I am writing up is from the notes I took today during the sermon I heard at church. Just so there is some clarity there for anyone reading this.

1. Waiting is the unavoidable reality of the Christian life.

No matter what we always seem to wait. Whether good or bad things happen to us or others, we remind ourselves to wait for God. There really isn't too big of a problem with waiting for God to come back, the problem with waiting is when we wait on making that decision and commitment to God. Jesus fulfilled and obeyed all the promises that God ever made to us. God promised Jesus would come back and it's okay to wait for him!

2. Waiting builds anticipation for Jesus's second coming.

Are you saved right now? Have you accepted Jesus into your heart and confessed with your mouth that you believe he died for you sins? I hope so! If not, I hope the Holy Spirit works in your heart and you come to make the decision soon.

I believe that sometimes we think when we get saved that is the finish line. What I mean is that the day we make that commitment to the Lord, sometimes we might think that is all we have to do is to become a Christian. Well it really isn't the finish line to salvation. The day we make that decision is the starting point to our Christian walk. As a Christian we live between the starting point and the finish line of salvation every single day. Did you sin today? If you don't know ask those who are closet to you. If you did, you are saved by God. Forgiven of your sins. The finish line to salvation is when Jesus comes again.

I challenge you to think about what you are doing while you wait? Are we content with becoming a Christian and just waiting util Jesus comes back? Or are we doing something about it in-between. The life we live between the starting point and the finish line is so incredibly important and we cannot wait during that time.

One of the things we do during that time is gather. Think about what a lot of people do on Sunday mornings? They go to church and gather with believers. Sunday mornings is a great start but that isn't enough. What are we doing the other 6 days of the week? I used to just be a Sunday person and that is when I was going to give everything to Jesus but when the Holy Spirit worked on my heart and I learned Christ wants all of me every day my life changed.

3. Waiting has a way of revealing what you are really looking to for salvation.

The longer we wait the greater the chances of becoming more disappointed. The longer we wait the greater the chances we have at becoming more lost or distracted. Why do I say that? Waiting can be pretty boring sometimes and when we wait and wait and wait, our minds get caught up in other things.

I like to think about it like this. Think about a phone call you have set up with a future employer or just any super important phone call in general. There is a lot of mental preparation that you do before you receive that phone call. You get locked in because you understand how important this phone call is going to be. You're expecting the phone call at 1 o'clock and you get nothing. You wait 5 more minutes and still nothing. At that point in time it's easier to loose focus. At this point you think you are not going to get that phone call so what do we tend to do? Oh I will just hop on my social media pages since I really have nothing else to do. You spend 5 minutes scrolling through social media, taking in everything you see, loosing your focus and forgetting about the important phone call you were supposed to get. It's now 1:15 and you're getting a phone call. You pick it up and began to panic because while you were waiting you lost focus on what was important. And because you lost your focus while you were waiting, the phone call did not go as planned.

We need salvation because we are losers. In a way. Think about what happens to sports teams in they lose rather than win. They get put into a consolation bracket. We are in a consolation bracket as human beings. One thing that we need to do about that is accept it. We need to accept that fact that we are in that consolation bracket and that we need Christ to win. Consolation comes from Christ's love and compassion he has for us and nothing else

4. Waiting too long to receive Jesus is dangerous.

Are you allowing your expectations and anticipation to bring you to Christ?

I hate to break this news to you, but everyone dies. Not everyone dies at peace and the only way to die at peace is having Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

I want to ask you this: Do you feel you're a peace in heart to take your final breath right now?

You either fall or you rise. There is no middle ground here. What we are doing in our hearts right now echos in eternity. I promise you, you cannot wait any longer.

What are you waiting for?