Saturday night I was watching the BSU-Nevada football game. For once the game was on early and I could stay up to see the end. I’m not into listening to announcers analyze everything and go over and over what I can see happening myself on the screen. So, I plugged my earphones into my computer and headed to YouTube to listen to songs that touch my heart.
As I listened to what has become my favorite, “Hallelujah Praise the Lamb” by the Talley Trio, I could literally feel my spiritual heart soften and become tender once again.
When I look around I see so much injustice, so much hurt, danger, and evil. I see people oppressed by the enemy of their soul. I see the enemy getting a foothold in their lives, causing them to question God’s love for them. I see them loathing themselves and coming under condemnation, instead of understanding the conviction of God’s Spirit to restore and heal. And I cry, when? When, God, will you set things right? The waiting can often harden my heart.
Yet as I listened to “Hallelujah Praise the Lamb” I remember that the Lamb of God purchased for us “mercy, grace and love that knows no bounds.” And that “though guilty and condemned I now am free.” And “forever I’m forgiven for Christ the Lord has risen and risen with Him we shall one day be.”
When I remember those things, as that song reminds me, I know it is going to be all right. My heart can sing His praise again! As I listened, I heard God whisper the promise, the same promise He makes in Revelation 6:11 to the ones martyred during the tribulation. They were told “to wait a little while longer” for Him to make it all right.
Thank you, Father, for the sure promise that there is coming a time when You will make it all right, and wrong will be banished for ever. Help me to spend my “wait,” my life, for Your Kingdom. Amen, come quickly Lord Jesus.
