Waiting and the In Between

1.     Psalms and David. – Our pastors have started us off so well.

2.     As I looked at this topic and considered both how I am doing and how so many of my students are doing, I thought about the point in Davids life where he has been anointed and yet is not king.

3.     1 Samuel 24 – David is being chased down by Saul and has an opportunity to kill him. In doing this, he would be able to take his rightful place where God has led him and it would all be like it should. Right? Instead, God shows him that while Saul is disobeying God, he was also anointed. This had to be infuriating. “God, you called me to lead your people, not run from them!” Yet David is obedient to wait.

4.     If you are like me, and I hope you are, you may have felt like God was doing great things in January and February of 2020. It was a new year with new opportunities. It was the final semester for some of our kids and was on track to be the best one yet. Then Covid happened and many of us felt like everything that God was doing was taken away. Yet if we look at this passage, God didn’t say never mind your not anointed any more just Saul is. Instead it was a call to wait. Now as the story continues David doesn’t do perfectly, but I think we see that he gets it a little more in Psalm 27.

5.     Psalm 27 talks of hard times and bad things, but finishes strongly with “Wait for the Lord. Be strong and let your heart take courage. Wait for the Lord” In my study bible there is a note that said “Wait is to look to him with dependence and Trust, not passivity, for this is what enables us to be strong.”

6.     This time of trial has not changed the good things that God wants to do in your life. It is instead to wait.

7.     One of my students recently wrote a blog and talked about the “Interlude” and “Waiting”. For her, this idea of the in-between in a musical sense connected with where she was with God. There are things that He is calling her too and places where she can be a light. However, that is not where she is. Instead, she is able to be grateful and present with God where she is. Not in the big bridge section of the song or in the cymbal crash, but in the interlude.

Questions:

–    What work was God doing in your life before COVOD – 19?

–    How has God continued to work in your life during COVID-19?