Word 10/7/08

Don't open yourself to the enemy through fear.

Open yourself to Me through faith.

Waiting

Lord, I feel like a boat bobbing around in the water waiting for You. There is no current, no wind, just waiting--hoping, trusting, waiting. Put there by You. Told to trust and wait. Told this is how I come closer to You, how I go deeper in our relationship, deeper in my knowledge of You and Your love for me. Expectantly waiting. Dying to my own efforts, my own timing. Sometimes I can see, other times I feel blind, fighting to hold on to that hope. Each time, You restore that hope to me to wait for You. Is my whole life on hold or just beginning? I have waited this long, I can't stop now. How close am I to the breakthrough, the time to reap the fruit of this season? I ask You to strengthen me as I wait for You, that no time will be wasted. Take me deeper in Your presence, deeper in my relationship with You, so to know You in all Your ways, to represent You in Your fullness.