{"id":3095,"date":"2015-04-20T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:23:17","slug":"sing-it-on-sunday-live-it-on-monday-waiting-here-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shalominthecity\/2015\/04\/sing-it-on-sunday-live-it-on-monday-waiting-here-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing It On Sunday, Live it On Monday: Waiting Here For You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

$\"Evening$ <\/a> It\u2019s Monday, y\u2019all!\u00a0 Time for another \u201cSing it on Sunday, Live it On Monday\u201d post.\u00a0 In this weekly series, I\u2019ll reflect on a worship song that I sung at church or during my week.\u00a0 If there ever was a series I\u2019ve dreamed of writing, it\u2019s this one.\u00a0 I love worship music. I appreciate the hard work of a songwriting to combine a lovely melody and sound theology, and, like I said last week<\/a>, God reveals himself to me more clearly when I\u2019m singing than any other time.\u00a0 Are you the same way?\u00a0 Does music nurture your spirit?\u00a0 Do you find yourself humming the music from Sunday well into the week?\u00a0 Or are you a super nerd like me and you find yourself googling, \u201cthe story behind (insert song title)\u201d while waiting in the carpool lane?\u00a0 Then this series if for you, too!\u00a0 My hope is you\u2019ll be encouraged, begin to think critically about the lyrics of the songs you sing, and apply those truths to your life in the coming week. This week the New City Church of Los Angeles\u00a0 <\/a>worship band ended the set with unexpected favorite of mine, \u201c Waiting Here for You.\u201d<\/a> <\/iframe>\n<\/p><h1>Sing it On Sunday:<\/h1>\nI\u2019ve mentioned before that I\u2019m in a season full of questions.\u00a0 We\u2019ve transitioned to a new city and I\u2019m starting over in so many ways.\u00a0 Friendships.\u00a0 Church community.\u00a0 Work.\u00a0 Daily rhythms.\u00a0 My calling.\u00a0 It feels like everything, doesn\u2019t it? Starting over is hard and so many days since we\u2019ve moved to LA, I\u2019ve felt like texting my friends back in Boston and asking for prayer or a virtual (((hug))).\u00a0 I miss them and, quite honestly, I remember all the work it took to get those friendships to healthy, life-giving, beautiful places- doing that here is overwhelming.\u00a0 Not impossible- but overwhelming. I was on the phone with one of those New England friends a couple of weeks ago and she said, \u201cOsheta, it\u2019s going to take time and that\u2019s ok.\u00a0 Take the time. Lean into Jesus as your best friend right now.\u00a0 Be patient.\u00a0 You will make new friends, but this could be a sweet time of spiritual growth for you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In a nutshell, my friend was encouraging me to wait well.\u00a0<\/strong> It\u2019s not the advice I wanted to hear, but it\u2019s what I needed, but\u2026what does waiting well look like though?\u00a0 What does it mean when our dreams- in my case finding my tribe of\u00a0 friends here in LA- are deferred? How do we get from, \u201cwe come with expectation, waiting here for you\u201d to \u201cSinging Alleluia\u201d? To wait well is to choose joy in the waiting by rejecting anxiety and clinging to hope.<\/strong> Tall order, right?\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s what I thought too, as we sang the chorus, but one truth about waiting jumped out to me from the lyrics: You\u2019re the Lord of all creation And still you know my heart The Author of Salvation You\u2019ve loved us from the start You\u2019re the Lord of all creation And still you know my heart The Author of Salvation You\u2019ve loved us from the start Our picture of God in the waiting determines our hope in Him and hope in a loving God helps us wait with joy in our hearts and praise on our lips.\u00a0 <\/strong> When you think of God, the one in whom you\u2019re trusting with this big dream, who do you see?\u00a0 Do you see a stingy Daddy Warbucks, capitalizing on your suffering for his fame and his glory? Do you feel like you have this dream and He has the resources to make it happen, but he\u2019s going to make you wait until you\u2019re at your lowest and most in need, then He\u2019ll show up?\u00a0 If that\u2019s how you picture God in your waiting, then it\u2019s no surprise that you won\u2019t find any joy or redemption in- it\u2019ll feel like a malicious ploy of the Divine. I\u2019ve felt this way about God, but fortunately, this is not the picture of God that Jesus portrays.\u00a0 In fact, just yesterday, my kids asked me why Jesus came to earth- was it just to die for us or was there another reason?\u00a0 The answer I gave them was a esounding YES!\u00a0 Jesus came, not just to live a holy life and model self-giving love by dying on the cross, he came to show us the character of God as a loving father, who genuinely cares about our suffering who desires to be close to us as we wait!\u00a0<\/strong> He came so that he can hold us with human arms, restore the outcasts, identify with our brokenness, and have first hand knowledge of our suffering.\u00a0 The Message version of Hebrews 4:14 says that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>Now that we know what we have\u2014Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God\u2014let\u2019s not let it slip through our fingers. We don\u2019t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He\u2019s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all\u2014all but the sin. So let\u2019s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nEarlier in Hebrews 1, we\u2019re told that Jesus is the exact representation of the Father, some translations says Jesus \u201cperfectly mirrors God\u201d.\u00a0 If our picture of God looks like Jesus who loves us so much that he came to be with us- even in our suffering- then as we wait we can have hope.\u00a0<\/strong> Not necessarily hope in the outcome, but hope in God himself.\u00a0 When I struggle with loneliness as I wait for community to form, I can have hope that God see me, he understands my needs, and he\u2019s working to do good for me because Scripture promises me that \u201che\u2019s so ready to give\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>Live it On Monday<\/h1>\nAre you like me and you\u2019re in a season of waiting?\u00a0 It\u2019s hard, I know.\u00a0 I hate waiting- I especially hate it when I have no or very little control- but what I\u2019m hoping to do this week is to use that anxious energy to want to make something happen for prayer.<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to keep in mind a picture of God that looks like Jesus- always loving, always faithful, always wise and spend as much time processing all my fears through this lens of God as possible.\u00a0 I want to replace those fears with joy and maybe, just maybe what my friend said about this season- that it could be an opportunity for spiritual nourishment- will be true. \u00a0 So, if you\u2019re like me and you\u2019re in a season of waiting, will you pray this prayer with me and share in the comments how I can be praying for your waiting?\u00a0<\/strong> Let\u2019s choose joy, sisters!\u00a0<\/strong> Let\u2019s see God for who he really is and let\u2019s allow him to nourish our waiting souls.<\/p>\n<h1>Prayer in the Waiting:<\/h1>\nJesus,<\/em><\/p>\nThank you that you are the author and perfecter of our faith. We ask for a perfected faith in a loving God. As we\u2019re waiting, we proclaim that we\u2019re waiting for you. \u00a0 Not just the thing our hearts want so badly but you, Jesus.\u00a0 We know that you came to reveal to us the heart of the Father, that he is for us and not against us, that he grieves with us when the brokenness of this world keeps us from our deepest, truest desires, and that he is working on our behalf to bring goodness, wholeness, Shalom in our lives.\u00a0 Let us lean into that truth and let it re-frame how we see our waiting- however long it may be.\u00a0 Let your joy- the joy that comes from trusting in your goodness and your faithfulness be our strength when the waiting leaves us desperate.\u00a0 We choose joy, Lord.\u00a0 We choose hope.\u00a0 We choose to sing Alleluia.\u00a0 We choose you. We\u2019re choosing to wait, for you with our hands lifted high, surrendering our anxiety and accepting your love. 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