WAITING ON GOD

 

We don’t like to wait. In our hurry-up world, we equate waiting with inactivity, but in God’s kingdom (as usual) that mentality is backward.

Everything begins and moves by waiting.

The Shepherd-King who knew God best understood this. It was David’s constant prayer that he would wait well, for he knew that everything depended on this blessed practice.

Make me know Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day. (Psalm 25:4-5)

WAITING IS NOT PASSIVE

To wait on the Father is to turn our attention to Him; to aggressively and patiently look and listen to Him so we can learn His ways, see His path, understand His truth, and then (and only then) move at His initiation.

It is our pride that pulls us away.

We arrogantly think we can make the decisions, find the path, produce the results that are needed without God. So, we move out quickly. We want to be noticed for what we have done, but impatient faith that is not focused on God is no faith at all. It can only yield humanistic fruit, the fruit of the flesh that Paul describes.

To wait is to understand your place. To wait is to realize who the great God of heaven and earth is. To know who He is and who we are and understand the difference.

CONTINUALLY WAITING

The secret of David’s spirituality was the consistency and endurance of his waiting.

For You I wait all the day. (Vs. 5)

My eyes are continually toward the Lord (Vs. 15)

His was no momentary look or casual glance. David was determined. He knew that waiting on God takes a deliberate refusal to look at every other god that vies for our attention. Every worldly distraction must be resisted. Every doubt countered by a belief that those who wait upon the Lord will always be rewarded.

WAITING’S FRUIT

The promises for those who look to the Father continually and wait on Him incessantly are stunning. Here are just a few. Read them carefully, for they can be yours.

Who is the man who fears the Lord?

He will instruct him in the way he should choose.

His soul will abide in prosperity,

And his descendants will inherit the land.

The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him,

And He will make them know His covenant.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,

For He will pluck my feet out of the net.  (Ps 25:12–15)

Are you looking elsewhere? The secret of every great spiritual movement is not moving. It is setting our eyes upon Him, our hearts in a determined trust, and moving only as He directs.