WE MUST WAIT

Sermon Notes, May 3, 2015

Rev. Dick Guizar

            Rev. Guizar’s message was titled “We Must Wait,” and was based on Psalm 130:5-6.  The psalmist talks about waiting for the Lord, more than watchmen wait for morning.  There are plenty of biblical examples of people who waited for God: Sarah and Abraham waited 25 years for God’s promise for a son to be fulfilled; Moses waited 40 years on the desert before he was called to lead the Israelites out of Egypt; Samuel anointed David as king, but waited nearly 40 years before it came to pass; and Israel waited 600 years for the promised Savior the prophets foretold.
            Americans don’t like to wait, and we are not patient with those who make us wait.  At stoplights, at the doctor’s office, in check-out lines.  It’s hardest to wait for God.  In Acts 1:1-11 the disciples were told to wait in Jerusalem for the promise.  Sometimes it seems our prayers for others are not answered.

But God doesn’t measure time as we do.  There are two words for measuring time: chronos, from which we get the word chronology, where every second is the same.  Seconds become minutes, minutes become hours, hours become days, days become weeks, weeks become months, months become years, years become decades, decades become centuries.  Every measurement is the same length.  That’s how we measure time.

The other word for measuring time is kairos, dramatic moments that last a lifetime; moments when you know God has done something.  Special moments when He speaks to you.  Dramatic and meaningful moments when God intervenes.  Significant moments when He reveals himself, in nature, in the timing of events, etc.  A boy asked his grandpa, “Has anyone seen God?”  The grandpa answered, “I hardly see anything else.”

We need to set our clocks to the right time.  Not chronos, where the hands go round and round, but kairos—God’s time, where God reveals Himself.