EXPECT!

     Isn't it funny how one word from a friend can stick in your mind and you meditate on it for days?  Actually, the Lord says He will bring to our remembrance every word He has spoken.,  O sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you!
     The word "expect":   What does that mean?  When you ask a question, expect an  answer.  We have eyes for the invisible!  In Hebrews 11, we see a number of examples of people who saw with eyes for unseen things.  It gave them hope and purpose.  Can I be excited over what I know is coming, but have not see, and may never see with my natural eyes?  Think of it.,  Today we see with our natural eyes what they saw by faith!  The Jews are coming home to Israel, Jesus.  We who are born again of the Spirit.  So many things -- even wars and rumors of wars.  They acted as though they were strangers on earth.
     Closer to home example.  A note my daughter wrote me years ago when she was pregnant: " Boy, how big can a  belly get?  I'm starting to get heavy and moving slower.  It seems like the baby moves more than kicks.  Can't get a running start!"
     Fathers, you've shared in this experience.  That's what it's like to expect--to know--to have faith.  There is life in us.  It is growing.  It is getting fuller and bigger, and sometimes it is not all that comfortable.
     God is enlarging us to carry that life.  We expect and we rejoice in the fact that we have new life inside us.  We can see and feel it with the eyes of faith.  This life in us is ours, God;s gift to take care of, to love, nurture, give highest priority to.
     Oh, the privilege, the honor, the joy of realizing there is new life growing in us.  Feel your belly.  Be pregnant -- expect that as a woman is pregnant and this life in her takes time to grow.  There is new life in us.  God's life.  New creating life.  The birth process is not an easy one for mother and child, but Oh, the reward when new life is born into the world.
     That's what it means to expect.  That's faith and faith has its own reward.  Keep your eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of your life.  Boy, sometimes your back hurts and the stretch marks aren't pretty, but the reward makes it all worth it.  God bless us all as we carry this precious new life within us.  1` Corithians 2:9.
     God has never stopped creating new life.  It's His joy.  Keep that word hidden in your heart --EXPECT!
Paul was pregnant, expecting and look what He delivered!  Mark 9:23.
      What He promised, He will deliver.  He is still Lord of all!

In His Love, a work in progress.