"Tying The Knot"

"Our soul waiteth for the LORD: He is our help and our shield." (Psalms 33:20) More than just your average celebration, don't you know! Continuing that thought of everlasting life, I could not help but imagine how much the Lord waits for us, as I thought about waiting for Him, I was thinking of Him preparing a place for us, making ready the wonderful new place where we will be spending eternity together. Yes, I can see that this verse is clearly speaking of "Our soul" that waits for Him, but it is actually a mutual thing that is being spoken of, if you get right down to it. Take Peter's statement about the Lord's promise to return, found in 2 Peter 3:9, as Peter says, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." The general idea that I believe Peter is trying to make, is that the Lord sees His bride in a certain fashion, and not only is He preparing a place for His bride, but He is also preparing His bride for her new home; and when she is ready, boom, the time will have come! Now, if you really want to get technical about this, whether it was David writing this, Ezra, Solomon, or any of the other contributor's to the Psalms, they would all have one thing in common, and that is that they would all be waiting for the Lord Jesus to show up with "the keys of hell and of death", (Revelation 1:18); and that side of hell is no longer occupied! So if you really want to talk about waiting, there was a wait that really must have been awesome; especially because all of their doubts of life after death were answered, and now they just waited for Jesus to show up with the keys to their holding place. It's not that way now, our only waiting is for Jesus to return or for our time to go be with Him; unless your waiting for that new Cadillac, and if that's the case, you had better get to work... "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless." (2 Peter 3:10-14)