At the walk-in clinic I approached the reception area. With nobody ahead of me, the medical technician at the front desk listened immediately as I explained I was there to have my purple ankle looked at. (It had been injured 5 days earlier in a racing incident at the speedway.) After taking my name and my personal information, the lady looked at me and said, "As soon as I have a room, I will call you by name." 

As I limped to sit alone in the waiting area, those words echoed in my mind with a reverberation of eternal dimension. "As soon as I have a room, I will call you by name." It's what all of us who are waiting for Jesus to come back have been told. He said to his disciples, "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." (John 14:2&3) This is the hope of all who have put their trust in Jesus alone. In the pain of this life and the sorrow of this world we are waiting for Jesus to come back for us. When our place is ready, He will come for us and (in the twinkling of an eye) finish making us ready for His place.

But make no mistake! We are not waiting alone. Later in John 14, right after telling His disciples that He was leaving, Jesus promised that they (and we) would not be left alone. In our Saviour's place, the Holy Spirit would be given to wait along with us. While we wait (a waiting that is not sitting around doing nothing) God's Spirit lives in us and teaches us about sin, righteousness, and gives us all what Jesus wants us to have from Him. Even while we are still broken, God has an incredible and blessed life for us to live.

In a world that many see void of God, God calls us to live a life full of Him - while we are waiting for our room.

Pastor Tim Davis, Copyright 2005
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Pastor Tim has retired from pastoring local churches and is now working alongside his wife to help refugees and persecuted Christians.

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