What Are You Waiting For?

         Do you ever have to wait for something?  I may have mentioned before that I was one of the people who had requested a Lone Ranger Decoder ring many years ago.  It seemed as if it would never come.  I had saved up the required box tops which meant that I had to eat all of the cereal.  Then, I filled out the required information and sent it it.  I waited, and waited, and waited until the day that it finally came.  I knew it was coming but just didn't know when.  There is a hymn that has the title, "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus."  It has been around for a long time. God had promised to send a Messiah and the promise can be traced through the Bible. Genesis 3:15 says, "I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." 
     This is what started it all off.  From this point on, you can trace the prophecies that promise that a Messiah would come.  They were mounting up as time went on.  The manner of His birth was a prophecy as well as where it was going to take place.  Finally, we have the account of the announcement of His birth in the Gospel of Luke.  A Savior had been born.  Now, what does this do to your life?  God meticulously worked things out for over 4,000 years and brought it all to reality one dark night around 2,000 years ago.  God does that because He is God and is capable of doing it.  That does something to me and my life.  God works out the impossible or at least, what seems to be impossible in my life.  Quite often, many things seem impossible.  I don't know how things are going to work out but they do.  You often hear people say, "Well isn't that a coincidence?"  Well, not really.  You see, with God there are no such thing as a coincidence.  It is all in His plan.  As a kid, I had faith in the mail man and the Lone Ranger to send me my ring.  Today, my faith has been put in God and in His Son the Lord Jesus Christ because the Bible is filled with promises that He made and kept.  In Whom do you put your faith?  Praise God that He promised the sending of a Messiah and that He did it so many years ago.