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Last night at the Renaissance Fellowship, I was privileged to be part of a holy collision. It wasn’t the “moon in the seventh house and Jupiter aligning with Mars.” Much more practical than that.
It was a blessed event, in which “willing” brushed up against “working” and satisfied “waiting”–the human trinity of possibility.
Without people being willing, it is useless to share things that are working. And if workable concepts are not being instituted, the sense of waiting in our souls lingers, rendering us frustrated. But when willing meets working, it satisfies waiting.
Foolishly, we’re all waiting for something.
How in the world waiting ever became a virtue baffles me–because waiting can be done by the foolhardy or the wise. There’s nothing particularly noble about it–matter of fact, it can degrade into first-class laziness. After all, what is the difference between waiting and stalled?
That’s where willing has to step in and become the big brother. In other words, we’re not only waiting for something to happen, we’re also willing to accept applications. They don’t have to be perfect. They don’t have to be what we’re praying for. Just able to be used to get us to our next place where we can stand in our faith.
You can tell you’ve grown spiritually when you know that complaining in any form can’t be justified.
Matter of fact, many of our prayers are glossed-over complaints. We lament to God instead of petitioning Him. We plead angst in His direction under the guise of just being worried and concerned.
Somewhere along the line, those that are “waiting upon the Lord” must renew their strength by being willing.
Willing to run and not be weary.
Willing to walk and not faint.
Suddenly–when willing shows up–working ideas seem to leap from the cosmos into the field of our vision. Hope does not spring eternal, it becomes an earthly possibility.
And when human beings who are waiting for some specific answer allow themselves to be willing to adapt to possibilities, then a Gospel full of working ideas can be preached and change the world.
Last night, people who quite obviously are waiting on promises suddenly became willing to enjoy themselves in the moment, and consider a temporary blessing, taking a rain check on their future hopes–and because of that, they were infused with working mercy, tenderness, excitement and insight.
It was magnificent.
But unless people become willing, nothing works. And when things don’t work, our waiting is absolutely futile.
So the good news is, it turns out that waiting is made much more tolerable by being willing.
And the better news is that willing people are ready to get to work.
P.S. Pictured is me with my grandson, Jonathan. (I’m the one in red.)
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