Ohhh... The Anticipation
You know that feeling... Anticipation...
Synonyms: apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust
Antonyms: despair
Amazing how many words describe anticipation yet in one word all else is laid waste.
What does it mean to you to be anticipating something?
Depending on what you are expecting right...
If you are waiting for exam results... Fear, Worry, Hope, Joy, Excitement...
If at the brink of a ROlLer COaSter riDe... Excitement, dread,
If at the emergency ward of a hospital... Dread, fear, worry, hope... despair?
What about before you go to Church or for Youth Service?
"Oh I'm "suan" Tim about MAn-U getting kicked out of Champs League."
Or
"Wow, the cutest guy in class is sitting next to me next year!! Can't wait to tell Grace about it..."
Personnally, I cannot imagine a greater joy than knowing that I will be coming before God in a time of worship with His people. The wonder of knowing that as we gather, He is in our midst and great and wonderous works are at hand. To stand in awe of the Lord as I raise my hands. The hunger to learn and hear His word spoken to the deepest recesses of my heart and soul. The foreknowledge (faith) that I will meet God today.
I am in a season of anticipation. Through the month, God had been speaking to the through His word, books and people He had sent along the way. What am I waiting for? I have no clue. But this I know, that if its from God, I don't want to be found asleep, un-ready, lost. Because what will be done or revealed is going to be ABOVE AND BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS.
"Do you know know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD Is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and His understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youth grow tired and weary
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD
WILL renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not faint."