The Hillbilly Blog
But
them folks that wait on the good Lord will git some new muscles.
They's gonna fly like them there eagles. They's gonna run and not git
woreslapout. They's gonna walk and not git woozy and fall out. (Isaiah
40:31, The Hillbilly Bible)
Often times I'm just like them there young 'uns with my heavenly Daddy, always askin'...
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Why?"
Y'all ever had a young 'un do that to ye? Almost ever'body has, I reckon.
Not
too long ago I asked the Good Lord why it was so dad-burned important
that we have to "Wait" all the time. It's in the good book just about
ever page. Wait on this. Wait on that. Wait, wait, wait. I'm tarred a
waitin' Lord! I won't it now!
That's the great thing 'bout
havin' a relationship with the God a the universe..where he lives right
there in yer heart. Ye can ask 'eem stuff, and he'll just up and
answer ye! WHAT IN TARNATION!
Anyway, here's what he told me.
Y'all prob'ly already knowed this, but I'm kinda slow. It's all about
humility. And if'n I had to name one thing that Jesus folk in America
is missin' these days it would be humility...that's includin' this ole
hillbilly y'all.
When we wait on the Good Lord, it's an act a submission, an act a humility. We're sayin' ...
Oh
alright, Lord. I'll wait. I won't it now, but since when did I ever
know what I won'ted or whether it was any good fer me! So, okay. You
win. Yer God and I ain't so I'll wait.
Ye see how that takes humility. It's a good thang.When ye got humility, ye feel lower'n a snakes belly, under a rock, at the bottom a the Dead Sea. And as it turns out that ain't such a bad place to be after all.
Stevie Rey is The arthur of The Hillbilly Bible.