Look Up
Look Up
Rapsodie Adams
Have you ever anticipated something that you wanted, for a long time? Maybe it was family that you had not seen in years. You see them coming down the driveway. Now they are getting out of the car. All of your waiting and anticipation and longing to see them has turned into, but suddenly; in seeing them, what joy there is in your heart.
I remember another anticipation. OK mothers (get out your hankies), you remember due dates, but your due date has come and gone. You have waited, and waited, and waited; your joy is somehow gone and you are not sure, when it left – but you know it is gone. A familiar thought has come to you, but this time it is not staying in your brain, it is coming from your mouth…will this baby ever get here? No sooner said and it is ‘but suddenly’ and you don’t even have to wait for joy to come in the morning. When they put that bundle in your arms, what joy did fill your heart; but suddenly has a way of sneaking up on us (can I get an Amen)?
A Prayer
Dear Father, please don’t let ‘but suddenly’ overtake me. Cause my spirit to always anticipate your coming. Let the rapture mean more to me, than family that I have not seen in years, and even more than the precious bundles, from heaven, that you have given me. Let the anticipation of your coming always be to me, joy unspeakable and full of glory; as I look up to heaven anticipating the blessed hope.
Be blessed in Jesus’ name.