Just a few weeks ago now I was sitting at the Budget airport, Singapore. My family and I were heading off for a few fun filled days at a resort in KL equipped with waterslides and ‘buffet breakfast’. I of course, had only one objective in mind…fitness! Who am I trying to kid, I was there for the pastries, French toast and I hope Eggs Benedict (if you don’t know what it is, my wife has the recipe), oooohhhhhh.
While fantasizing about my ‘buffet’, I began to muse on a recent comment about Singaporean eating habits…
‘Singaporeans concern themselves with the meal that is in front of them, visitors to Singapore concern themselves with the meal they are yet to experience’.

Wait for The Holy Spirit…

Though it is important to plan for the future, we cannot always count on the future. Quite often, and I speak to myself, we are consumed with that thing, that experience, that whatever that we have not yet had. So too in our Christian walk, planning ahead, preparing for what we know is important and essential, but never let it be at the expense of what God is saying to us at a given moment.

Listen to the Holy Spirit…

In the book of Exodus ch 33/34 we can read the account of Moses meeting ‘face to face with the Lord as a man speaks to his friend’. He then pleads with the Lord to confirm that He is with Him and the people of Israel for the physical and spiritual journey ahead of them. The Lord commands Moses to meet Him on the mount the next day and as He places Moses in the cleft or crack of the mountain side, the presence of the Lord passes by as He declares His covenant with His people and their generations to come.
Moses could have begun his 7 steps to the Promised Land program or simply packed up his own family and headed off on his own considering the ‘stiffnecked’ and disobedient Israelites, even his own brother Aaron having failed in the face of pressure…but he did’nt. He waited on the Lord, he got alone with the Lord, he met with the Lord, face to face.

Then walk with and in the power of the Holy Spirit…

Moses and the people waited until the law had been given before they moved forward toward the Promised Land. Then they walked, led by the Presence of God, sustained by the Presence of God, obeying the commands of God (sometimes anyway). As the time when we commemorate Pentecost, the 50th day after the end of Passover, let the cry of our heart be as Moses…
‘Lord, if your presence is not with us, let us not move on from here’.

Wait on Him, listen to Him, walk with Him…

Adam
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