May 27, 2007

  • Night Watch

     

    At the banquet feast I watch and wait.

    Eloquently dressed, at the table, I sit up late.

    Stars flicker across the star-studded sky.

    Hopeful anticipation glistens in my eyes.

    Rich food lines the plates of the finest crystal.

    Thunder resounds like a powerful pistol.

    Hands, nervous and sweaty, I call out to you…

    I jump inside and wait for the clouds to breakthrough.

    The lamp lighting the table flickers. You are near!

    I open my ears. Your words I want to hear.

    For you speak to me in the dawn’s early glow,

    In purity and truth as fresh as the snow.

    Honey flows down from the clouds stretched out like silk.

    From a glass pitcher softness descends as warm milk.

    You speak to your daughter, “Be ready. Watch for me out the window.”

    So I wait for your blessings in vibrant colors to show.

    Removing the bowl that hides my candle,

    I stand by the door with my hand on the handle.

    May my flame grow higher and the intensity rage!

    May your grace run through me like a ballerina on stage!

    I pray my poise and posture reflects who you are…

    The Merciful Redeemer, David’s Heaven-lit Star.

     

    Kimi Willingham

     

    Lamentations 2:19,

    Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin;
    pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

     

    Judges 7:19

    Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.

     

    Exodus 14:24

    During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.

     

    1 Samuel 11:11

    The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

     

    Luke 12:38

    Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when He comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for Him.

     

     

    *** What a beautiful picture—to be waiting at the banquet table for the supreme guest of honor to arrive. Wow—the King has told us to be on watch for Him. How truly exciting to live in a state of anticipation! God is ever-faithful and true to His powerful promises. We are to be watching—surveying the walls for His return. Holy King of kings, make us into faithful watchmen. May we never grow deceived by this world; but look to you and study your Word for true interpretation. For you alone are blameless. May our hearts dance and breathe in the warm breeze of your promises. We call out to you. Speak to us, your servants. Reveal your hidden wisdom to us!