Oh, I waited for our flight out, and waited… but first before leaving I had to prep, clean, pack, and get going… the train to the train to the plane…

The hardest thing I did today (which is why I shouldn’t complain) was WAIT.

Then wait. Then wait.

Was excellent swiftness through all airport security, no lines nearly at all, then we sat and waited. I sat.

Then waited.

Then watched. Watched people. Watched everything. 

Then prayed. What brought prayers to my sight this day? Why was it worth the wait to deliver the extra prayers and be humbled in my sights?

Because wow oh wow, wow oh my… Wow, these couple hundred folks stretched in a line at the next gate – people upon people dressed in black and white with big hats and long hair – these masses stretched out before me – all lining up for the flight before ours – tons of folks – BOARDING ISRAEL AIR – to Tel Aviv – WOW – oh the children and young families – they were flying right into a war zone. 

I have no complaints waiting. I bet they waited too, for days, months, years, and now especially with only a few airlines that now fly there to Tel Aviv, they still chose to go. They probably had to go. Probably GRATEFUL for the flight. Families and families and families of Orthodox Jews. Strollers, hats, scarfs, children.

I became more and more thankful for counting blessings of taking a vacation rather than a flight into the unknown – and yet they needed to go home.

Prayers. 

PRAYERS…

What are we ALL really waiting for – in life? Waiting to go? Waiting for peace? Waiting for normalcy? Waiting for the time that we won’t be waiting anymore? !!! … Waiting for God to move? He is always moving – and mobilizing His people.

These people in their faith and their lives know something about waiting. They are waiting in faith for knowledge of a Messiah to come as well. So in faith they wait and wait. They (and we) may wander and wait just like the old days but with different lifestyles. Wait with prayer and traditions. Wait with families in tow. Wait right into what seems so wrong to return to, with escalated tensions, but has been actually “normal” for their day to day. Yes, a turbulent life of bombs, of finding known in unknown, of holding ever reverence for Israel. They go there. They go home. 

They go because they know, that when the wait ends, it ends (and begins) right through Jerusalem. 

We need to keep watching Jerusalem too. For the Lord WILL walk right through Jerusalem one day. We will wait because here we are NOT in the pilot’s seat… The Lord also awaits this next leg of the journey (He is ready at the gate)… We have to wait upon Him!

Amen and God bless all those people. God Speed to them and to You Lord. Lord come quickly with Your Peace. I remember that Hope is in You and You alone. I pray the HOPE should reach so many more before Your return. 

Amen 

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Isaiah 43 – New King James Version – The Redeemer of Israel

But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth – Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf who have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, And let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, And show us former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.” “You are My witnesses,” says the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord, And besides Me there is no savior. I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, and there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses,” says the Lord, “that I am God. Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?”

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives – the Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships. I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters, Who brings forth the chariot and horse, The army and the power (They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick): “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.

Pleading with Unfaithful Israel“But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob; And you have been weary of Me, O Israel. You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, Nor wearied you with incense. You have bought Me no sweet cane with money, Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.

“I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted. Your first father sinned, and your mediators have transgressed against Me. Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, And Israel to reproaches.