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Over thousands of years now the bible reports to us about waiting for change, hope of promises coming to pass. Believers, with their eyes on God, felt oftentimes certain tension in their hearts. An inward expectation is demanding but also very beneficial. God’s announcements, for the purpose of man’s future, have always produced diverse perceptions. Our busy lives, as well as community activities, are by all means capable of overlooking the essence of the great coming advent. The waiting for Christ’s return is the most important point of the still outstanding Godly promises. The visible, repeated intervention of God for world deliverance, the completion of God’s realm, the drawing to an end of all world powers. There are unmistakable signs of hope:

Patience and Trust.
Waiting can become quite tiring. Time passes without seemingly anything happening, like standing still. Impatience wells up. One really would like to turn the clock! Questions arise: is it worthwhile – this holding fast to the promises of His return? Is this “Return” at all still asked for?
God’s time dimension is not ours. But His Word is in force, that rather heaven and earth vanish away, than His promises remain unfulfilled. We love to be reminded of this: “When the time was fulfilled, He sent His Son once more”. So will it be said and experienced.

Hope and Promise.
To wait one needs strength. Hope and promise contain both. Often it may be hidden ­one must search for it sometimes. In the congregation of the hopeful is God’s Spirit and His Word. Hope is contagious. In the promise is He who gives it, and all promises of God and Yes in Him and Amen in Him. God Himself is the guarantor.

Longing.
Where my treasure is, there will my heart be also. When will I attain unto, that I can see God’s face?
Paul says that we, with the creation, groan within ourselves for the redemption by the coming of Christ.
Does this longing still burn in us? Is this the motive for our living? The goal of all spiritual development is the renewing of an everlasting union with God. FOR GOD’S LONGING – IS MAN.
The above mentioned verse in Proverbs is also a promise. It also will be fulfilled and experienced. It is truth and will be manifested in the future.
At the end of waiting, both will be fulfilled.
The receiving of joy or to be condemned.