In Exodus chapter
1, the people of God are living in the meantime. They are neither where they were in Exodus
1:7 (living their best life), nor where they want to be in the Promised Land ~
which doesn’t happen for another 120 years (80 years of Moses and 40 years of
wandering in the wilderness ~ and I didn’t even need a calculator to do that
math!).
In the meantime is
not exactly the easiest place to reside or call home. Often, we are pining for the past or fearing
the future. Often, we can think that
things were so much better back then or constantly criticize the shortcomings
of today.
In the meantime,
when things are not as they once were and not how we hoped them to be.
Where is that true
for you today? In what ways are you
living in the meantime? I know for me
there are situations in my family where this is true for my soul. I know there are things in our church where
we are in the meantime with COVID, with stewardship and budgeting, with what
worship will look like.
In the meantime…is
one of the truths of Exodus 1 and 2.
May that truth
speak to your life this day.
Prayer: God who is
here in the messy middle of my life, I pray for in the meantime moments. I pray for that which is unresolved or even
unsolvable. I pray for that which
bewilders and befuddles me. I pray for
the puzzles that perplex and where life is a Rubix Cube I cannot solve. Help me be open to You now and every hour
this week. Amen.
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