The Risk and Reward of Waiting

We can forget that for God’s people before Jesus came, waiting for the Messiah involved some risk. If God comes in power, is that good for us or bad? When Gabriel visits Mary to announce the Messiah’s birth, we see that God’s mighty power is pointed toward us in love and because of his grace—to save us. What’s more, it’s worth the risk to obey God while we wait for him to come again, even at personal cost, because through us, God is at work saving others.