TEXT: ‘Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me’ (Micah 7:7) THOUGHT: Waiting for God to answer and bring about a change to a situation can be one of the hardest things to do. Delay can seem like denial but often it is not the case. In the Bible there are a number of scriptures that refer to ‘waiting’ and Today’s Teaching highlights five areas we need to be aware of and focus on. Wait Politely – ‘Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath’ (James 1:19) Waiting can bring out the worst in us. Think about reactions, ours included, of people waiting in a queue, whether at the supermarket, traffic lights or the entrance to a big event. How impatient we can get even over the slightest hesitation by the person ahead of us. Many an obscenity has been shouted at the car in front for taking off slowly after the light has turned green. Having driven in Africa and Italy, the use of horns there to express frustration and anger is widespread! The epistle of James exhorts us to be slow to respond and get angry because, ‘Anger will...
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TEXT: ‘Love suffers long and is kind’ (1 Corinthians 13:4) THOUGHT: Another word for humanity is mankind. If the syllables were reversed how much better it would read – Kindman! How this world needs a good dose of kindness. The Bible also uses the word ‘lovingkindness’, and this is what God displays towards us that helps draw us to Him in the first place. ‘How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings’ (Psalm 36:7). ‘Who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies’ (Psalm 103:4). ‘I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm’ (Jonah 4:2). Today’s Teaching focusses on five aspects about kindness that we need to be aware of. It’s an add-on to our faith – ‘But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love’ (2 Peter 1:5-7) We may be better at some of these add-ons than others, but kindness is one area we must keep working on. It’s all too easy to fall back into selfishness and become inconsiderate about...
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