See and Hear...

Crazy days...long, crazy days.  Ridiculous schedule  Ridiculous life.  Not that it's not fun, but a couple of "those days" that you don't even breathe.

Working with seniors midweek on their youth Sunday sermons, we read Isaiah 40:21...
Have you not known?  Have you not heard?


The people of Israel, coming back from exile (a whole bunch of "those days") are reminded by the prophet that God is in control and God is and has been working on their behalf.  Are you paying attention? says the prophet...you've known in the past...you've heard this all your lives.  So what are you doing?  What are you thinking?

For the people of Israel, exile was ridiculous...long, crazy days...sometimes they couldn't imagine where God was or what God was doing.  I bet, some days, they didn't even think about God.

It's the very craziest days, though, that we need to be reminded, "Have you not known?  Have you not heard?"  We know that God is at work.  We know how God is at work.  We have heard the stories.

One more week of craziness before the celebration of the coming of God to us...to our crazy world.  Have you not known?  Have you not heard?