“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”
Psalm 27:14
“Hurry up and wait!”
When we hear that phrase we may chuckle a bit because we have all found ourselves in that predicament. Just mention the initials “DMV” and there is instant recognition for most New Yorkers of the Department of Motor Vehicles. There is also a universal “wince” as we all remember our personal “horror stories” of having to wait in line at the local DMV office. The last thing you want to hear when you walk out of that office (maybe having celebrated a birthday and the turning over of a page on the calendar – just kidding) is that you are just being taught patience!
Believers often are in a “waiting’ mode after receiving a word from God. It may, in fact, be a time when God is developing patience in you but to limit it to that is to minimize what God is doing.
Far too often God speaks to us and we take off running.
We fail to wait at His feet and get His counsel.
We fail to get counsel through others, wiser and (perhaps – could it be?) more mature than us. Some of the words spoken by God were fulfilled before the sun went down on the day they were spoken but far more often there was a long span of time. Some words spoken thousands of years ago are unfolding today or are yet to be fulfilled.
Do not read what I did not write: we are to wait but it is not to be an apathetic or inactive wait. We wait in hopeful and faith-filled expectation of that word. We actively (and not passively) wait. It is a ‘drawing near’ and not a ‘drawing back’ wait.
It is an advancing wait and not a retreat.
We wait because it is not simply the “working out” of that word in our lives but more importantly it is the “working in” of His word to our lives.
We may not fully understand the word when we receive it
but let that word be formed in you….
Psalm 27:14
“Hurry up and wait!”
When we hear that phrase we may chuckle a bit because we have all found ourselves in that predicament. Just mention the initials “DMV” and there is instant recognition for most New Yorkers of the Department of Motor Vehicles. There is also a universal “wince” as we all remember our personal “horror stories” of having to wait in line at the local DMV office. The last thing you want to hear when you walk out of that office (maybe having celebrated a birthday and the turning over of a page on the calendar – just kidding) is that you are just being taught patience!
Believers often are in a “waiting’ mode after receiving a word from God. It may, in fact, be a time when God is developing patience in you but to limit it to that is to minimize what God is doing.
Far too often God speaks to us and we take off running.
We fail to wait at His feet and get His counsel.
We fail to get counsel through others, wiser and (perhaps – could it be?) more mature than us. Some of the words spoken by God were fulfilled before the sun went down on the day they were spoken but far more often there was a long span of time. Some words spoken thousands of years ago are unfolding today or are yet to be fulfilled.
Do not read what I did not write: we are to wait but it is not to be an apathetic or inactive wait. We wait in hopeful and faith-filled expectation of that word. We actively (and not passively) wait. It is a ‘drawing near’ and not a ‘drawing back’ wait.
It is an advancing wait and not a retreat.
We wait because it is not simply the “working out” of that word in our lives but more importantly it is the “working in” of His word to our lives.
We may not fully understand the word when we receive it
but let that word be formed in you….
1 comment:
Very good Steve, so very true. Waiting on the One who purposed the wait.
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