January 13, 2022
Yep. It’s 2 (well a couple minutes to 2). Thank you for waking me this morning. Thank you for insight into how the way I was eating was affecting me. Thank you for another day to walk with you.
Help me to be more aware of how I’m treating my body in my desire to lose weight and be healthier, I don’t want to swing to the other side of the pendulum.
Why is hope delayed?
Romans 8:18 -25 – I consider our present sufferings insignificant compared to the glory that will soon be revealed to us. All creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal who his children are. Creation was subjected to frustration but not by its own choice. The one who subjected it to frustration did so in the hope, that it would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom that the children of God will have. We know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time. However, not only creation groans. We, who have the Spirit as the first of God’s gifts, also groan inwardly. We groan as we eagerly wait for our adoption, the freeing of our bodies ⌞from sin⌟. We were saved with this hope in mind. If we hope for something we already see, it’s not really hope. Who hopes for what can be seen? But if we hope for what we don’t see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
Perseverance: persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
(Root – persevere: Latin- perseveres. To continue steadfastly.
Waiting in hope is about us. Being taught. Persistence. To keep doing something. It builds habits. These habits help to determine our quality of life while we wait. We eagerly wait. This speaks to how we wait. You’re keeping an eye out. Checking on it (not impatient, but eager). When eagerly waiting, you’re not going to forget about it.
Eager – strongly wanting to do or have something.
Question: when folks said things like “when I stopped looking, it happened.” Or things along that line, is it true? Is that what we’re supposed to do? But that thought seems to contradict the “eagerly wait”. You don’t eagerly wait for something and not think about it or work towards it. It makes me wonder about the truth in some of these statements. Society, the Christian community often speaks against showing any outward desire for something other than Christ’s return. But we should not desire anything else MORE THAN we desire Christ. We have to truly have faith and trust like a child. They are excited by what they know is coming. They don’t hide it. They know they’re getting a gift and that excitement is contagious. When you give a gift…well, when I give a gift and the person who is getting it, shows no excitement or anticipation for it. It takes away some of the pleasure. Much less if they get the gift and the response is a generic, “Oh. Thank you.”
