The LORD is my portion

https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/30/hope-in-god-2

It is true that in the contemporary context, we want things instantly. Even in television, when Netflix releases a series, it is at one go with 12 episodes or more. There are still TV programmes that are released one episode a week but Netflix has bucked that trend. So if you have 12 episodes released at one go, you may binge watch all over a weekend. Then it’s all over even though it would have taken months for the production crew to make those episodes. Sometimes we forget the effort, work and time needed to make certain things that we just consume in an instant. Or the engineering and effort taken to make the latest mobile phones that we just take for granted the latest features complaining that they are still not good enough etc.

I think the lamentation in Lamentations 3:24 is apt in the context of our current contemporary world. “The LORD is my portion, therefore I will wait for Him”. Translated, “my portion” means my inheritance or literally my part or my share or my lot as in the division of profits in a partnership. In other words, we have a stake, a share or a portion and that stake, share or portion is God Himself, the LORD God Almighty, the creator of heaven and earth. Meaning to say that our inheritance when we pass away and leave this world is God. We will get Him, He will be ours. And this is confirmed in Revelation 22 as heaven and earth will be one and the LORD will dwell among His people. So why would we not wait for Him? Christ’s death and resurrection have placed a seal on that portion, that guarantees as an added assurance that our portion is secured and sealed.

The same way as minutes of a television programme will take hours to conceive, create, shoot, produce and edit – there are certain things even in the spiritual realm that takes time to come to pass. Not just a matter of a waiving of a hand to dissolve or resolve a situation in an instant. Of course God in His supreme miraculous power could do it but there are ramifications in all directions. That is why certain things need time to materialise. I recall recently in negotiating a contract I had this difficult situation with a vendor who didn’t agree with something but just went round deleting chunks and chunks of the language in my draft contract. I had to tell him off that it was not only rude and unprofessional but also creates so much work for me as even a deletion of a defined word in a contract has ramifications in other parts of the document and I would have needed to relook every single sentence and phrase that has that word.

The world has gotten more complex nowadays. A change here may need changes there and there and there. As much as God relates to us directly and personally, there are millions around us and our interactions alone could be in the thousands. Any decision or action by Christ is never just about us alone. So let us wait for Him. He is our portion. He knows exactly what we are going through and will come through for us, in His time as He will make all things beautiful in His time. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. It is renewed every morning.