Ready and Waiting

Please read Luke 12:35-40

As I read through this portion of Scripture, I cannot help but notice the tension in my heart and the sudden force of anxiety deep in my stomach. This story brings me back to part of my story. This scene of being on guard, watchful and not knowing when the master would come home is very reminiscent of life in my home as a child. I lived on guard, watchful, listening for the rumble of his truck, the sound of his footsteps coming to the door. Had I done everything to be sure the house was as he required it to be? Is there a fresh cup of coffee brewing so that he can instantly have one at his fingertips as he arrives? Has the fire been burning in the fireplace long enough to have the house at the proper temperature? What will his words be when he walks in the door? Words of condemnation and disappointment or will I have met the mark today? Dreaming of what it would be like to live in eagerness to run into the arms of a loving daddy. Even at the retelling of this scene, I feel my heart racing and a panic rising up in me…..DEEP BREATH…..

Then I think of this story…of this Master…the Master who is coming for His Bride! The Master who is not looking for flaws, but One who is eager to be with His children. One who calls us to a life of readiness, not out of skewed power or control, but out of a heart that knows that as we live in expectancy and readiness, there is a growing capacity in our hearts for Him. This life of readiness and watchfulness is not so that He will find comfort when he comes, but so that we will experience the peace and wholeness that comes as we live in expectancy for our Perfect Father. This Daddy has arms open wide for his children, eagerly anticipating their childlike trust, simply because they are HIS.
Praise you JESUS, our Father and our King!!! May we continue to live in expectancy…not out of unhealthy fear, but out of great love and expectancy for the return of our KING!!!

I’m grateful today that the Spirit of God has done some gracious work in my heart, helping me believe the truths of the True Master in deeper ways.

Kari Levang