This week: God as waiting. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com. There is no time better than now to be aware of God as waiting even as we are in the midst of this devotion. God is not waiting for us to read this or to do any other kind of 'spiritual' exercise or duty. God as waiting brings God's whole peaceable Reign and puts it down right alongside us. It is here - we are always invited to jump in or wander in or fall in. One of the keys in the story that is often called the Prodigal Son is that it is also known as the Waiting Father. Before the son decides to come home and try to make a life for himself - even if it is as a servant in his father's house - the father is all about celebration. The love of God is never pulled back and reserved and made conditional. God as waiting is a love that simply is utterly at hand and ready for any who are grasped up in its power even when we expect the story to go as we have planned it. Already, God as waiting is thinking about the homecoming - the welcome - the embrace - the celebration. That is all a reality now - at this moment. God as waiting holds nothing back for another time or place. God has been waiting for this moment and each one to come - for this God is all about life abundant. O God of love and new life, help us enter the homecoming party. Amen. |
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