Wishing But Left Waiting
Monday, December 18, 2023
In Midwinter We Can Wish For the Golden Light Of Summer,
But There Ain’t Nothing We Can Do To Make It Come.
Daniel 2:21
He changes times and seasons, deposes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.
Luke 1:52
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly….
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Words of Grace For Today
Not just a few people whom I have known more than deserve the wish that Jesus would come to judge them, cutting through all their lies and false rumours and self justifications for the evil they work against others. Then they would be stopped in their tracks and their victims would be restored to life as it was before they so destroyed them with lies and abuse and all kinds of evil.
For while these abusers and evil doers are still all too active in their evil doing, they have long since ceased to live, for their spirits have been taken by the Evil One, and they walk as shells in motion without heart and soul.
Jesus come!
But
There is nothing in that wish,
not for those wishing it,
nor nothing that stops the evil nor restores the victims.
So we wait.
So we wait and can do nothing to bring Jesus’ judgment and healing.
For there is nothing to be done to stop the evil doers and their evil, nor to restore their victims.
So we wait.
So we wait, so oft impatiently, for there is no other hope for things to be made right.
So we wait, and pray: come Lord Jesus, come!
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until we remember that through forgiveness God heals the victims of evil, and the perpetrators as well.
So we pray, come Lord Jesus, come! Forgive us, heal us, and if you must, forgive those who still work evil against so many victims, helpless to defend themselves, except that they rest in your presence
here already today,
for while there is nothing to do to bring Jesus to come,
we can recognize Jesus is already here,
among us,
healing us,
even when we cannot pray that our abusers would be forgiven,
even when we hope the Holy Spirit would bring our abusers to amend their lives.
So we wait, and pray
our thanks that Jesus is already come, is here, and will come again to judge both the living and the dead.