Waiting for revelation. This phrase has been in my mind for weeks. There is an anticipation in the Spirit that God is about to fulfill His promises and the words of His prophets. We are in the midst of a transition, but either we are near its completion or we are entering a new phase of our turnaround – or might I say turn-upside-down.
We are embarking into an unknown, a place we have not been before. I hear the opening monologue to Star Trek, “going where no man has gone before.” Can you feel it? Are you, too, waiting for revelation?
What does it mean to wait for revelation? I think of Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus who sat at Jesus’ feet instead of helping her sister serve (Luke 10:38-42). We are collectively being invited into a Mary moment – waiting for revelation. How will you respond to this invitation?
Mary “sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word” (Luke 10:39). We are being called to a place of rest, a place of stillness. “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalms 46:10)! There are times and seasons for everything. There are times to get to the work and the doing of kingdom busyness and there are times when Kingdom business is the business of waiting. For most of us, this is the harder part, but Jesus called it “the good part” and said it “will not be taken away” (Luke 38:42).
What does this mean? It means we are in, not-so-much a waiting time as we are in a preparation time. Runners train daily until the day before a race when they rest and load up on sustenance for the race to come. We are in a resting phase. We need to accept this place and fill up on His Word, His presence, His peace, His Spirit to prepare ourselves for this race that is right around the corner. We will need this time of stillness to draw on, but we will also need the revelations drawn from this season to carry us in the next.
We are accomplished at doing. We know how to do many things. We do not often know how to simply be. Yet we are being invited to a time of letting go of what we know to do so we can walk in a new level of faith which will only come if we give ourselves to this season of waiting for revelation.
“I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling—that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones” (Ephesians 1:17-18)!