I Can Hardly Wait

I mean it, Lord. It's so hard to wait sometimes.

I cannot wait until...

* the father of lies is fully done away with.
* truth is all there is to know. No more conflicting reports and information to try to figure out.
* Jesus Christ is revealed for all to see who he really is, and not who people have misconstrued him to be.
* grace reigns.
* the people of God are set free from the constraints of this world.
* we know in full, instead of in part.
* every knee bows at the name of Jesus.
* we don't have to live by faith anymore, but will see face to face.
* we can buy food without money.
* women see men and men see women as the highly valuable, respectable, glorified children of the Most High God that they are and honor each other because of it.
* justice is served by the God who invented it.
* the race is finally over, and the people of God can rest.
* we see the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, and behold that the dwelling place of God is with us. He dwells with us, and we are his people, and God himself is with us as our God. (Sure sounds like he wants to be with us!) He wipes away every tear from our eyes, and death is no more, neither is there mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

But Lord, even as we long for these things to take place, may we experience in this world the satisfaction and delight of knowing you now, of being loved now, provided for now, comforted now, esteemed now. You are our hope and strength and salvation.