Carson Hope Church

Sunday was powerful! The Holy Spirit moved in such a deep and personal way as we continued through the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25.

We talked about waiting — the kind of waiting that exposes what’s really in our hearts. Waiting for healing. Waiting for breakthrough. Waiting for direction. Waiting for promises. Waiting for Jesus.

So often we view waiting as punishment, but throughout Scripture, God uses waiting as formation. The delay of the bridegroom in Matthew 25 wasn’t proof that he forgot them — it revealed who had oil.

The presence of God met us so strongly as we surrendered disappointment, anxiety, control, fear, and unmet expectations back to Jesus. We were reminded that God is not absent in the waiting. He is forming us in it.

“Waiting is not punishment. It is purification, if we allow it to be.”

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