We're just over here waiting on the new grandbaby to breathe his first breath. I worked ahead last week and tried to be smart in every way. I wrote & scheduled an “emergency weekly email” in case anything happened this past weekend and nothing happened... here it is Tuesday at noon and we’re still in the waiting. Waiting on God’s perfect timing. And I am convicted that I should put effort into this email instead of just sending out the basic emergency one. So, here I am. Putting effort.
I read Proverbs 30, Psalm 30 and couldn’t stop my mind from making lists and daydreaming about this newborn life about to be. I turned over to Psalm 130 and was reminded of the great truths I’d seen there before:
“Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.” Psalm 130
And then I kept reading: “O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.” Psalm 131
It takes me longer to “get there” most days and today was no exception. My heart finally began to melt and I was able to bring all my fears before the Lord in one big bundle. It was a big surrender. A deliberate surrender. And He heard all of it and assured me that He would be with me (with US) through it all – in the waiting, in the wondering, in the delivery, in all the details, in the first cries, in the long nights, in the days to come, in the generous addition to our family... and He reminded me of all the times He’d been with us before. How very grateful I am that He longs to walk with us in this life and that He is so very patient, good and kind. Take a moment and ask the Lord to show you if there’s a bundle you have been holding tight to no matter the size. Show it to Him. Give it to Him.
Songs of Encouragement in the Waiting:
Right Here Waiting <-- had to thrown in for fun!
*Taken from LIFT weekly email.
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