There are two ways of looking at our future deliverance. You can think of it as something that SHOULD happen in 2.5 minutes, or you can think of it as something that COULD happen in 2.5 minutes. The difference is subtle but profound.

I quote our brother Scott Hicko from a video titled, "Prayer Amid Struggles of a Snatching-Away Hope While Living Everyday Life." Scott honestly admitted a certain tension related to feeling disappointment each day the snatching away doesn't occur. It sounded to me like perhaps Scott was thinking of dialing back his expectation, that is, not thinking so insistently about the coming of Christ for His body.

It is not insistency, however, that is the problem. The problem, again, is "should happen" vs. "could happen"---or, even worse, "was supposed to happen" vs. "didn't happen." Scott offered the analogy of a father who promises a child of divorce that he will "pick her up tomorrow"—but then doesn't show. Ouch. That would be devastating indeed to the child, but anyone applying this analogy to our waiting for Christ is employing the wrong analogy.

Allow me to offer an analogy that aligns with the facts of the deliverance that we are promised. This analogy will by no means dampen your expectation. Oh, hell no. Rather, it will sharpen it—and all without the disappointment factor. Intrigued? Sound too good to be true? Watch and see.