Have you ever watched How I Met Your Mother? One of the main characters in it, Barney Stinson has a little catch phrase he's known for saying on the show. Everytime he has some ridiculous plan up his sleeve, he says, "it's going to be legen.........wait for it” then he pauses for a few seconds (or sometimes years) and adds, "dary!" "legendary!"
Lately, I feel like he could narrate my life. He would say, "Amy, when x, y and z happens, your life is going to be legen....wait for it...." then I would wait and wait and wait...
I feel like I am definitely in this time of waiting since I have moved here. I'm waiting to feel/look like my normal self. I'm waiting to find a gym that checks all the boxes. In moments of homesickness, I can't wait for the first year to be over so I can visit home. I'm waiting on friendships to grow. It's funny how you never stop and think about how much of life is waiting until you find yourself constantly waiting and constantly praying for patience and trust through the waiting.
I was reading through some of the required Sonship readings for Serge earlier today and came across this thing called "passive righteousness" or "righteousness by faith". As I read about this type of righteousness, it struck me that there is something that we don't have to wait for, Jesus.
Jesus does not say "just be patient and keep learning about me and then I'll be your Savior." Jesus doesn't say, "in 3 years I will be your Savior". No, he's always there. We don't have to wait to have a relationship with him. We don't have to have to wait to accept him as our Savior and friend. He’s always there.
When we accept Jesus, we receive righteousness by faith. The thing that’s really cool about righteousness by faith is that we don’t have to do anything to earn it. It is simply a gift from God. We just accept it. It blows my mind that I can receive righteousness just by knowing Jesus and placing my faith in him.
I don’t have to work for it or wait for it. It’s already there. It’s already “LEGENDARY”
This is just a small picture of what I have been learning about lately since moving here. Waiting is hard but in the midst of the waiting, I am reminded that I don’t have to wait for Jesus. He is with me when settling in moves at my pace and when settling in is still a process. A process that most people go through no matter how far they move. I can kick myself in the head at times and think I should have tried moving out of state first before moving out of the country but it is what it is. He is still with me in that too. He is with me when I see things in ministry moving and when things are moving at a slow and steady pace.
So today if you're tired of waiting for things in life, tired of being patient with yourself or things in life, know that Jesus is there. You don't have to wait for him. He's there with open arms, ready for you. If you have trusted in Christ as your Savior, remember today that you have received righteousness just because you placed your faith in him. You don't have to depend on yourself because you can depend on what he has already done for you. How freeing it is to stop trying so hard to gain his approval and just accept the gift that God has given.
"What is more, I consider eveything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ-the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith."-Philippians 3:8-9
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