Waiting For God

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

Waiting is not something most of us enjoy doing in life. We often wait because we have no other choice. If you were supposed to meet someone at a particular place and time, and you get there and that person is not there, you begin to wonder if one of you got something wrong as to the time or place you were to meet. The longer you wait, the deeper you wonder.

If you think of the strength of a rope and how it only gets stronger as other strands are twisted together, that is how it is when we wait on God and allow ourselves to become intimately connected to Him. Suddenly there is unlimited power and strength from Him that comes into our life. We as the weaker strand are made strong by His strength.

Our strength is renewed as we wait on the Lord. What does that really mean to wait on the Lord? Waiting on the Lord is something that will bring these results: strength, renewal to change, ability to produce fruit, recovery, endurance and energy.

The Scriptures contain many instructions to wait on the Lord, for example:
Ps. 27:14; Prov. 20:22; Is. 40:31; Lam. 3:25; Hab. 2:3; Acts 1:4; Rom. 8:25.

Clearly, God intends His people to wait on Him. Whatever He has called us to do, he promises to give us success in it if we will wait on Him. At the core of waiting on the Lord is obedience. The root idea of waiting is not devotion, it is obedience. We wait on God when we say, “not my will but yours be done Lord.”

Let's pray:

Savior, teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me.
With a child's glad heart of love, At Thy bidding may I move, Prompt to serve and follow Thee, Loving Him who first loved me.
Teach me thus Thy steps to trace, Strong to follow in Thy grace, Learning how to love from Thee, Loving Him who first loved me. Love in loving finds employ, In obedience all her joy; Ever new that joy will be, Loving Him who first loved me.
--Jane E. Leeson, 1807-1882

--thanks to Rev. David Koch

May your day be blessed,

Samantha