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We have news to announce. Someone mightier has come, and we exist to make Him known.

The church service you’ll attend this week is preparation for the eternal worship that’s coming. The difference between then and now? The “nearer than when we believed” gap will finally close. The thin veil will tear. The watching will be over because the Watchman will have arrived.

We’ve become a culture of beholders who immediately turn what we see into worship and witness. We behold the moment, we worship it by framing it perfectly, and we testify to it by broadcasting it to our followers.

“…worship in the “yet.” The ruins remain visible. The resurrection remains certain. And we stand in between, saying with Job, “yet in my flesh shall I see God,” and with Jesus, “all live unto him.”

“…all of us face the daily choice between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of self. We are called to the same radical trust. To love enemies. To bless persecutors. To believe that God’s promises are more solid than what we can see. To live as people who already belong to the age to come.”

Calling upon the Lord isn’t just something we did once when we got saved. It’s the ongoing posture of the Christian life.

washed people worship, “…worshiping people witness, and those who hear the witness enter the water themselves. Then they join the song, and the praise endures forever.”

We face Ali Hafed’s choice every day. Where will we invest our time, energy, and resources? Will we build our security on what we can accumulate, or on who God is? The scriptures call this choice being “rich in good works” versus being rich in this world. One investment pays eternal dividends. The other leaves us searching in all the wrong places for what we already had within reach.

The waiting isn’t wasted time. It’s the space where worship becomes authentic, where faith becomes real, where we learn that God himself is better than anything we’re waiting for him to do.