Weight of Waiting

Bible says they groan. Can I dig this deep? The Hebrew word here means more than just complaining. This is someone crying because they feel like a burden is crushing them. It's a weight that feels insurmountable. It's a weight that sits heavy on your chest and makes it feel like you can't breathe or or or take a deep breath within your diaphragm. The word is often associated with physical and emotional agony. Israel is no longer merely just uncomfortable, they are broken. And out of this place of pressure and out of carrying this heavy weight of waiting, they cry out. [00:13:26] (41 seconds)  #GroaningForDeliverance

when you've been dealing with the same situation day after day, week after week, month after month, it can feel as though God has forgotten what God promised you in the first place. But the Lord remembering has nothing to do really with us. It has everything to do with God's faithfulness to God's covenant and to God's commitment. letting us know that although it seems like in your time frame that I've forgotten, I remember my faithfulness. Here's why this is important because it's not saying that God remembers our faithfulness or our faithlessness. It's saying that God remembers his faithfulness. [00:23:50] (45 seconds)  #FaithfulCovenant

And that's something that's good to know because that means when you go into your prayer closet and you aren't sure what words to say and all that happens or tears begin to stream down your face, God hears those cries. It means when people do you wrong or treat you bad or when you face rejection or oppression, and even though it seems that there is no help for your situation that God is hearing you. It means that other people may try to silence your tears, silence your cries, tell you that nobody cares about you, but God still cares even when people do not. I serve a God who hears. [00:19:59] (41 seconds)  #GodHearsYourTears

He cannot see he's blind. Alright. So he doesn't know what Jesus is doing, how Jesus is moving. He's just crying out. He does not necessarily know which direction to cry out to. Come on now. He just cries And as he elevates his cry, verse 49 says, Jesus stopped. Some translations say, he stood still because when God hears, God moves. Jesus then calls to him. Because when God hears, God move. I serve a God who hears my cries even when my tears aren't necessarily directed towards him. God still hears me. [00:19:13] (47 seconds)  #EveryCryHeHears

Have you ever grown tired or weary while you were waiting for something to happen? Whether it's a prayer that has gone unanswered, a breakthrough that you're looking to occur, a healing to manifest, a job opportunity to show up, a fiance that you're waiting to put a ring on it, a child that you're waiting to choose the right path, have you ever gotten tired of waiting? You ever grown exhausted under the weight of waiting? Waiting to get your head above water, waiting to finally give you get a good night's rest, or waiting for the government to get things right or for citizens to act right, waiting to exhale? Have you ever just gotten tired of waiting? [00:02:27] (56 seconds)  #TiredOfWaiting

A desperate cry for help, not a polished prayer, not not not not a beautiful song, but they cry out in desperation under the weight they were carrying. This was a prayer of survival, a prayer that comes when a person has no more options and don't know what else to do. Their backs are against the wall. And here's the part about this text that really messes me up. The text says, the people simply cried out. Yes, sir. See, I I can tell you you you missed it. It does not say they cried out to God. Alright. Look at the text. [00:14:07] (41 seconds)  #DesperateCryForHelp

What this text is saying is it's not that just God heard them. It's not that just God remembered his faithfulness. It's not that just God saw them. It's that God knows them. Yes, sir. And Jesus himself is the embodiment of this reality. Yes. didn't have to do it. But in order to be intimate, connected with us Uh-huh. He had to become one of us. Yes, sir. Dwell among us. Yeah. He had to know what it felt like Yeah. To be carried in a womb for nine months. Oh, yeah. He had to know what it felt like to come into this world through the birth canal of a woman. [00:35:38] (50 seconds)  #GodKnowsUsIntimately

He sees the division in our society. He sees the hatred in the hearts of humanity. He sees the injustice that goes unnoticed. He sees the economic struggles for working families. He sees the grief that carries us and burdens us. He sees the weight of our waiting. God sees the pain. Alright. But he doesn't just see it. Yes, sir. He doesn't stop there. Yeah. See, the text says he hears, he remembers, he sees, but then it says he knows. Go ahead. He acknowledges. [00:31:55] (48 seconds)  #HeFeelsOurPain