Wait. The word wait always conjures up images of long lines in grocery stores, traffic at a standstill and backed up for miles, long months leading up to vacations, another year without a cost-of-living increase or raise, etc. Waiting and agitation seem to walk hand in hand.
There are other things that Scripture is quite clear about besides God’s desire for obedience and the fact that we are not very good at it (which we looked at yesterday).
One is that is, our Father wants us to learn to wait upon Him. I do not know how you are with waiting on God, but I am usually like the writer of Psalm 119: “How many days must Your servant wait?” [vs 84 HCSB]
We are just not very good “waiters.” Remember the two-year-old’s we thought about yesterday. They have another word in their vocabulary, “Now!” It’s the same word in our vocabulary as adults. We want it and we want it “Now!”
It doesn’t take very long to learn that God’s timing is not our timing. And that some of the biggest messes we can create come when we fail to wait for God to move and try to do it in our own strength “Now!”
There is a much-sung chorus based on Isaiah 40:31. It starts with the Scripture quotation: “They that wait upon the LORD, Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”
It ends with the prayer, “Teach me Lord, teach me Lord, to wait.”
Much good and much strength come when we learn to wait on God.
