Excitement!

So, how excited do you get? Isn’t excitement a joyful awaiting of something, someone or some event and really sets our emotions in motion.
 
Just think about it, as excitement touches so much of our lives. It could be the first child to a couple or the expectancy of a first grandchild or even a great-grandchild. It might be getting excited about a birthday or more widely about Christmas. Certainly children get excited about Christmas with the thought of opening presents. Maybe playing silly games, eating sweets, having various treats. It could be the eager awaiting of a trip to far flung places or visiting old friends and the enjoyment of memories of times gone by. Could it be you’re excited about the future?
 
There is a film drama series on TV called ‘The Chosen’ all about the life of Jesus and the disciples, and it is very well worth watching as it contains many insights of what those times may have been like. Seeing Jesus and the disciples mixing with the crowd at the feeding of the 5000, all getting excited about listening to this new teaching and enjoying the buzz of the occasion. The excitement of the disciples living with, and listening daily to Jesus and the excitement of all the followers. Do you get excited about your part in building God’s Kingdom?
 
We have a building project at our church and are you getting excited about it? I hope so, because we are not just enhancing our premises, we are actually Kingdom building and making our premises  suitable for the work God has for us to do through it. Now, I get excited about it, not necessarily to jump up and down (knees won’t allow!), but to just be partnering with our God in the work we have to do. We are reaching out, touching lives and fulfilling the command to go and tell others about Jesus.
 
Where will our buildings take us? I don’t know, but I know someone who does and I want to be part of it. Great times are coming; do you sense it and are you getting excited? Read John 2:10 which ends with the words, “….. but you have saved the best ‘til now”.