Isaiah 25:6-9

Isaiah 25:6-9
English Standard Version (ESV)

   I remember waking up in the middle of the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas as a kid and wondering if it was morning yet.  The morning held such appeal to me that it was all I could do to lay in bed and wait until the morning.  The waiting was so hard, but it was so exciting to think about the wonders of Christmas morning.  As a kid, it's the most special morning of the year, and it's so hard hard to wait for it... 
  As Christians, we wait for God.  We wait for him to deliver us from sadness and sorrow and pain, and we wait for him to swallow up death and make a rich feast for us.  We wait with eager longing for all that God is going to do, and it's so hard to wait -- the waiting should consume us, should excite us, should continue to remind us that what we are waiting for is so wonderful -- it's greater than anything we could possibly imagine!  As an excited people, we wait, knowing and trusting in the God who keeps every promise and who has promised to wipe away every tear!