As a child of God, what should we be doing during this Covid pandemic that has changed the routine of our lives in so many ways? Is there any end in sight as we wait?
We need to keep busy waiting. Now, a phrase like that might seem a bit contradictory. Are we to keep busy or should we hold steady and wait? If we are to keep busy, what should we be doing? If we should be just waiting, what are we waiting for? We actually are to do both.
It is like a woman in the final days of her pregnancy. She finds ways to keep busy in her life while she waits in anticipation and expectation for the arrival of her baby.
We are called as believers to practice a similar posture. Once we turn to God in faith believing, we are called to keep busy loving God and faithfully seeking to serve Him and others, while we wait with great anticipation for the return of Jesus Christ.
The Apostle Paul states it this way, “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, (1 Thessalonians 1:2,3)
Faith, love and hope are the distinguishing virtues of a child of God and the church. They are the attributes for living in the kingdom of God. Interestingly, Paul later on in this same chapter describes these three virtues as turning, serving and waiting.
For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:9,10)
Join us this Sunday as we gather to worship the Lord and hear the word to Keep Busy Waiting!
Every Blessing,
Pastor Barry Risto
Lead Pastor