Dave Hop Waiting
As we draw near to the Season of Advent, and a time of waiting and preparation, a reflection on three Biblical characters.
Joseph stares at the bars, counts off one two three four all the way up to twelve… yes there were twelve of them weren’t there… twelve brothers… and where are they all now? And what was that dream about the others bowing down to him? He looks at the bars again. Studies the scars and crevices of time. It’s been so long and it hasn’t worked out, was he wrong to dream like that? He’s certainly changed, the stuffing knocked out of him, that young adolescent bravado changed for good. A little more humility coursing through his veins now… time has worked on him… he’s something else now… someone else… waiting waiting waiting. Years later, Esther, not behind bars but still somehow imprisoned here in this lavish hareem wondering what an earth she’s doing here. What will become of her? What will the king think of her when she finally gets an audience with him. Here she is surrounded by perfume and make up and fussing servants, is there any purpose to this? Is God with her on this strange and meandering pathway? Somewhere inside she senses he is. It’s been ten long months now, where will it lead, what will it mean? Will she just fade away or be remembered down the ages… waiting waiting waiting. And further down the line of history, years later, a prophet tells of a time when people will leap with joy, when eyes will be opened, and freedom will be in the air. And does that prophet expect it to happen tomorrow… next week… next month… next year? What he doesn’t know, what Malachi has no idea about, is that it will be 400 years of waiting waiting waiting… that vital and slow part of faith.
Malachi 4 v 2, Esther 2 v 5-12, Genesis 40 v 20 – 41 v 1
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