• they that wait

  Brian Foster Kane on July 05 2010

  This past Sunday was the 4th of July, and I came to Basileia looking forward to celebrating the national holiday with my friends in Los Angeles.I also knew I wasn’t alone in coming to the noon gathering exhausted from the week's events. I'd had a busy morning already and knew that once our gathering ended, the day was only going to get crazier.

  We began to worship together, and a few songs in I felt the Lord pressing on my heart to contemplate and really begin to understand what it means to rest and to wait on Him. Isaiah 40:31 came to mind: “Those that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength”. I admit I’ve wrestled with this concept my entire life, especially after I moved to Los Angeles. The craziness, crowdedness, and noisiness of this town can often shred to pieces our ability to understand and live in a place of rest and of waiting.

  Over and over again we hear the ancient words reminding us to focus our hearts and to set our minds on “things above”. There was a moment when  the band finished one of their songs, and I thought we were going to move from worship music into the next part of the service. But the band began to play “Jesus, Be The Center”, and I felt the Lord start to break down my fear of the quiet and of the stillness, where I often hear His voice and feel His presence.

  At the end of one of the most stressful and busy weeks of recent years for me, there was Jesus. Speaking directly to my heart and calling me to a place of peace and rest. Where He desires to be the center and the source and renewal of my strength, if I would only wait. The band played on for several more minutes, and my heart and mind were comforted in knowing that He offers such respite from the madness that is our lives, careers, and activities in the creative whirlpool of LA. But it is truly in this place of peace, quiet, and reflection that we are able to tune out every noise and distraction, and wait upon Him to renew our strength and keep us living fully alive to seek and to save the dying world in which we live.

  -Brian Foster Kane

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