I’m not telling you anything new when I tell you that most of us have been disappointed by a minister… a pastor… or a priest.  Either he wasn’t what we hoped… or he couldn’t help like we thought… or he let us down in his word or our expectations.  Maybe he was just all too human.  He failed morally… or he didn’t seem to care enough… or he didn’t know what to do… or he didn’t memorize your name… or couldn’t be in two places at the same time.  THEY… WE… I… disappoint!

But what if there really was someone who understood… REALLY UNDERSTOOD!  What if that One knew me better than ANYONE ELSE – even better than I know myself!  What if he could REALLY help me – REALLY counsel me – REALLY CHANGE ME?  What if he could represent ME and my FAILURES and my NEEDS to God… and REALLY BRING GOD NEAR (into my life)?  What if He would NEVER, EVER leave me?  And never let me down?  These and a thousand other questions swirl around the passage in Hebrews chapter 7 we are looking at today.  But it will be difficult to understand… But ONCE we understand… trust me… it is going to be IMPOSSIBLE to forget!  So stay with me. 

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……………”Why isn’t He saying something?  Why doesn’t he DO something?  This waiting is annoying!  I’m just not going to sit here doing nothing!  I expect more!  If he doesn’t act or speak very soon I think I’m going to leave!”  These are not the thoughts you have of me… these are the thoughts we have… of God.  And the few seconds or minute that I burnt in silence doing nothing in front of you… while you were expecting me to act…  represent the hundreds… of moments… and days… and weeks… and months… AND YEARS… that WE WAIT… AND WAIT… and wait… on God… and wonder… “Why doesn’t He DO something?” (none of us like waiting… our patience wears thin… check out line… drive up… green light… work day to end… important phone call… letter in the mail… job interview to get back… doctor’s report)  Sometimes waiting takes even MONTHS… (pregnant) or even YEARS… (pay off your college loans… or you retire).  WAITING IS DIFFICULT… and if we HAD OUR CHOICE… it would be something that we’d rather not do.  It tests our patience… it saps our energy… it tries our convictions… and sometimes makes us miserable in the moment… And yet WAITING… is what GOD DEMANDS… of you. » Read The Rest