Bayside Church Folsom

“And reminder for you today that when Jesus shows up, one night they're gonna take him under the cover of night, and and they're gonna take him to a cross, and they're gonna publicly murder him in front of everybody. And if you're only judging what God can do through that part of the story, you see a cross with a dead savior, and then a sealed tomb. Because it's all you can see. If you're there then though, Friday's not the end of the story. Sunday's gonna come, and the stone will be rolled away, and Jesus will walk out of the tomb having defeated sin and death, and that's our gospel. That God can do more than we can see. That he can redeem more than we think he can. That his love can actually conquer sin, brokenness, and the death sentence that's on all of our life.”

“You may never. You may be able to look back and see what the answer was, but you might not. So my advice to me would be my advice to you. Regardless how God answers, be heaven bent to growth. That all of the answers are grow. The the only thing I can control in this is who I am and how I show up. So if God says go and says yes, then I wanna grow while I'm going. If he says grow, then I wanna grow. If he says slow, I wanna grow in the slow and in the wait. And if he says no, I wanna grow there too. You will never be able to control how long you wait. You'll only be able to control who you are while you're waiting.”

“And it's worth remembering though, particularly in our time, the biblical waiting never means sitting around and doing nothing. There's a lot of literature right now around spiritual life and disciplines and rhythms that is all wonderful and beautiful and needed, particularly in western evangelical Christianity. However, we also have to acknowledge that the biblical image of waiting is never sit on a rock and hope God moves. That's never the way the Bible does it. Jacob works while he waits, because faithful, obedient, biblical waiting in a season of your life is not doing nothing until God moves. It's being faithful with what God has in front of you while you're trusting and hoping for the things that he hasn't put in front of you yet. Be faithful in your waiting where you are.”