I’m a Resident Assistant at Houston Baptist University. We started training around August 2nd this year. It was right after I got back from Sabine Creek. For about a good three weeks we had an agenda almost every day that related to preparing for our residents. It consisted of checking rooms/suites for damages, decorating, organizing closets, taking down old decorations, putting together important documents for their individual files, and programming. It was a rough three weeks to say the least.
I remember a point in training where I said to myself, “I’m tired of preparing. I’m tired of the anticipation, they just need to come already!” Around this time period I was getting exhausted. I asked God to show me that he loved me because I was expending all this energy towards people I hadn’t even met and wasn’t getting poured back into. I asked him to show me He loved me in a way he hadn’t before.
At the end of the 3rd week we were putting up decorations and organizing the kitchen. I remembered the increasing anticipation. I realized I loved my girls before I had even met them. We had done all this work for them in addition to praying for them. I felt like we really communicated love to them through all the preparation. We wanted it to be nice and comfortable for them when they got here just because we loved them. Preparation communicates love and value to me and we were declaring value to our girls in this way.
I remembered thinking these thoughts and realized there was a verse in the Bible about Jesus preparing a place for his disciples in heaven. In John 14, the first section reads:
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” [ESV John 14:1-4]
In that moment I realize that Jesus is preparing for me to come to Heaven. His preparation for me communicated love and value to me. It was an "I love you," from the lips of Christ. I understand that if I wasn't important to him, he wouldn't make any preparations for me. Every one of us waited with baited breath for our residents to come so we could enjoy them in a place we created for them. How much more is God waiting with anticipation for me to come enjoy a place that was created for me in heaven!
I remember a point in training where I said to myself, “I’m tired of preparing. I’m tired of the anticipation, they just need to come already!” Around this time period I was getting exhausted. I asked God to show me that he loved me because I was expending all this energy towards people I hadn’t even met and wasn’t getting poured back into. I asked him to show me He loved me in a way he hadn’t before.
At the end of the 3rd week we were putting up decorations and organizing the kitchen. I remembered the increasing anticipation. I realized I loved my girls before I had even met them. We had done all this work for them in addition to praying for them. I felt like we really communicated love to them through all the preparation. We wanted it to be nice and comfortable for them when they got here just because we loved them. Preparation communicates love and value to me and we were declaring value to our girls in this way.
I remembered thinking these thoughts and realized there was a verse in the Bible about Jesus preparing a place for his disciples in heaven. In John 14, the first section reads:
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” [ESV John 14:1-4]
In that moment I realize that Jesus is preparing for me to come to Heaven. His preparation for me communicated love and value to me. It was an "I love you," from the lips of Christ. I understand that if I wasn't important to him, he wouldn't make any preparations for me. Every one of us waited with baited breath for our residents to come so we could enjoy them in a place we created for them. How much more is God waiting with anticipation for me to come enjoy a place that was created for me in heaven!
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