Who Likes To Wait? (Part 3- FINALLY!)

I offer you the third and final installment of thoughts concerning waiting on the LORD.  Sorry to keep you waiting!  

Waiting on the Lord is means trusting Him with our hearts. 

In Proverbs 20:22 we read, “Do not say, ‘I will repay evil’; wait for the LORD, and He will save you.” When we are hurt by others, our first inclination is to take matters into our own hands and retaliate. Our hearts are hurt and we want to get even.  But waiting on the Lord is trusting Him enough to be obedient to our responsibilities and duties toward others and to leave everything else to Him. Waiting upon the LORD is placing all the emotions and desires of our hearts into His trustworthy control. We do this knowing that the LORD is the only one who is completely just and will one day right all wrongs.

Waiting on the Lord results in experiencing enabling grace. 

By waiting and resting in the  WILL and WAYS of God, God graces us with divine strength; power to wait; power to trust and power to endure. Isaiah 40:28-31 says, “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary”  Because we are creatures, there will be times when we are weary.  But remember this: the LORD NEVER tires! Why is it that we tire and the LORD does not?  Perhaps God designed us this way so that we would become very aware of our utter dependence upon Him. God delights in and pours out His grace upon us as we wait on Him because through this He receives more pointed glory and then we experience the joy and pleasure of soaring on the winds of His strength on wings of grace.