On-Demand Theology

Perhaps one of the most frustrating and baffling aspects of my life has been waiting on the Father to reveal or launch a plan into action. I have launched myself into seasons of sin before because I couldn’t stand the silence. I suppose I thought I would get the Father’s attention even if it cost me. And that was bad thinking!!! Thinking that drove my relationship to God into darkness and sometimes despair. I would like to say I’ve gotten better at being more patient but if any of that statement is true it is because Father has allowed patience to develop in me.
If you haven’t picked up on it by now I am a selfish, self-centered individual and what I have discovered is that my selfishness is the source of my frustration with the Father. I know now that impatience and disobedience are directly related to one another in the spirit realm. They have an alliance together inside the wicked heart of man that continually robs man from the Father’s deepest callings. But believer don’t worry. He will continue to stretch us until we break and our hearts are brought back to Him or we learn to bend and not resist Him.

Let’s examine a passage together about waiting on God:

Ex. 24:12-18

12The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” 13 So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.” 15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Moses was called by the Father to approach Him. Yet he sat on the edge of a cloud of fog for six days before Father spoke to him again. Six stinking days!!!

Now let’s get real here do you know anyone, one person in the United States who would wait SIX DAYS to meet with God. We live in an impatient culture. This culture of ours is about supply and demand. And most Christians in this Nation, including me, view God as the supplier; which makes us the demanders.
“Whoa…? Back up here Thomas! You’re not suggesting that we are in charge are you?”

“No America Consumer Christian! I’m just suggesting that we THINK we are in charge.”

Church. Thomas. We need to WAKE UP! Our culture has fashioned a god out of On- Demand philosophies that do not exist. We stand at the microwave tapping our feet impatiently waiting for our food to be heated. We want to experience the depth of heaven in a fifteen-minute bible study. We are self-diluted.

In reference to the Exodus account:
I can hear the Optimists now… “The Word says have a mustard seed of faith and cast that mountain into the sea!” Congratulations! You just cast your only hope of knowing the Father, as He desires for you to know Him away from you.

And then the Pessimist… “Sometimes God just wants us to climb over the mountain, I guess I’ll start. Let the suffering begin.” Brother you just walked into the presence of the Most High unprepared and in your own strength. You will be more exhausted than ever.”

Church let’s ask God for His tender mercies. Read this passage again. And WAIT patiently with Faith!

An after thought: Moses had Joshua to wait with. The Father calls us into community with a few people. Jesus said two or three warrant His attention. We will rarely find the Father’s presence in a crowd, so being a celebrity is unnecessary. Father give us your eyes to see and your ears to hear for we are yours!