Nature and Character

There is so much on my heart right now.  I feel as though part of the destiny God is setting before me is too overwhelming.  This week we are learning about the character and nature of G-d.  It seems so mundane and Christianese but boy am I learning so much and being reminded of things from long ago. 

It took Noah, assuming you believe the stories to be true, 100 years to build the ark.  There was no such thing as rain before then.  100 years.  So that would be like at least 8 in our time scope. People lived over 800 years then and we only live 80-120.  Can you imagine working on a project, the same one, for 8 years?  And on something no one had heard about?  Imagine it became public, this project, and for 8 years you had to endure interviews about why you were doing it, what was the point, how did you know it would amount to anything, especially if after 8 years, you're still not done. 

It took some 25 years, and I may have this wrong, but from the time G-d promised Isaac, it was 25 years before Sarah gave birth.  Can you imagine?  So, again, they lived alot longer but say you feel G-d prophecied or spoke to you about something specific and then you had to wait 2 years before you even had ahint that it would come to pass.  I know me, I'd say "did I really hear? was that just my imagination? Is there really a destiny for me?"

A dear friend of mine once said "the only things that happen fast are destructive...volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, psunamis..."  Most of creation happens slow.  So why do we think the character of our lives or G-d happens fast?

This encourages me but also frustrates me.  I recalled some promises I felt G-d gave.  In 1996-7 I was physically healed in my back.  That is a huge story but suffice it to say I have a 10 inch scar to show the remnants.  When I was healed physically, I also "heard" G-d say "I am going to anoint you and I am going to heal you".  I had no idea what that meant but I remembered it this week.  In 2000 when I was in Vanguard, the pastors gave a word over me that I would be a trailblazer and one said my hands would bring healing.  2 weeks ago another person said my hands would bring healing. 

David was anointed by Samuel and then didn't become king for years.  Years.  Noah, Abraham, David, I wonder if they questioned if they heard right.  I wonder if I heard right.  I wonder this because things have taken so long to come to fruition.  How impatient am I, how impatient are we as Christians?  How impatient are we as Westerners? 

What we do today is a fraction of our lives, the lives of our children, and eternity.  What we do and are today though, determines the next generations views. 

I am jumbled I know.  But may we be a people who consider the bigger picture, the scope of our lives and the generations to follow.  May we consider this moment but a glimpse of the infinite.