The Waiting Time | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 26, 1870

The Waiting Time.

IN all the holy life of our Lord, there is nothing more interesting or profitable for us to contemplate, than the sublime submission and patience with which he allowed thirty years of his short stay among men to pass away without commencing his ministry. Daily the woes and distresses of sin-stricken humanity, the manifold forms of disease and iniquity presented themselves before him in all their various repulsive and disgusting developments. Daily the devil-possessed shrieked their wild denunciations of God and man in his ear, and leprosy-devoured creatures, who bore in their own bodies the fearful curse of their own and their parent's sin, parade their horrible remnants of corruption before his pitying eyes. Daily did the lame and blind, and deaf and dumb, and halt, grope and silently beg in the streets his blessed feet frequented, lacerating with keenest anguish the tender, loving heart of the One who bore “our griefs and carried our sorrows.” Yet behold him, who could with a look, aye, with the silent putting forth of his divine power, have driven back all these dreadful curses to their hiding places, never more to see the light, and turned all these wailings of human woe into the rejoicings of the blessed, behold him, O ye impatient spirits, as he dwells in the quiet of his humble home in Nazareth, biding his Father’s time, submitting without a murmur to his Father’s will, and consenting, because of that divine will to do so little while possessing the ability of doing so much. What a lesson is there for us to learn, and to profit by, in this silent waiting of Christ.—Selected for REVIEW.