Who Likes to Wait? (Part 2)

As a continuation of what I started yesterday, here is the pondering about WAITING on the LORD:

Waiting on the Lord is trusting in God alone. 

In order to wait on the Lord, we must cast off all other objects of trust and rest in Him alone. Psalm 62:5 says, “My soul, wait in silence for God only, for my hope is from Him.” God has His way of stripping idols out of our lives so that He alone receives our attention. He is the God who will not share His glory with another. It might be trust in finances, people, good health, or our own plans, but waiting on the Lord means we must willingly abandon those things, or anything which replace trust in God.

Waiting on the Lord is the key to discerning God’s will. 

Psalm 25:4-5 says, “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.” David knew that in order to know the will of God he must desire His guidance and wait for His leading with a teachable and submissive heart. Often times, God does not bring about what we believe to be His will until our hearts are completely surrendered and content in Him alone. As long as our determination is fixed upon what we want, God’s will remains a mystery. If we are not OBEDIENT to the truth that He has already revealed, why should He reveal more?

Waiting on the Lord is a confident expectation of His mercy and grace. 

Psalm 123:2 says, “Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD our God, until He shall be gracious to us.” When things are crazy and seemingly out of control, we must know and live in light of the character of God as being GRACIOUS and COMPASSIONATE and FULL OF MERCY. By WAITING on the LORD we can be confident that He will manifest His mercy because He is the God who has promised to never leave or forsake His own. We find REST in the sufficiency and fulness of His grace even when we cannot see His plan.