Wisdom While You're Waiting
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We Have Security in Jesus
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
God has a purpose for us (Eph. 2:19-22).
God wants the best for us (Rom. 8:28).
God doesn’t quit on us (Phil. 1:6).
As with anything, we need to start with the gospel. What does it mean, here, for you as a church? For those who have surrendered their lives to Jesus, we have assurance that we are no longer estranged from God, we are no longer foreigners. No, indeed we are being called into a loving relationship with our Lord. This significant because there is a fundamental big picture here that we often miss; that Jesus is building his church. This household of God is being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, in other words the Old and New Testament, with Jesus himself being the foundation that holds it all up.
God is not in a rush.
(Lam. 3:25-26; Psalm 37:7)
25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Jesus is sufficient for us (2nd Cor. 3:4-6).
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
God is sufficient for our growth. (John 16:13-14)
God is sufficient to empower us. (1st Peter 4:10-11)
Be Faithful to Your Mission