Waiting

Waiting? Hurry up.

When will the flesh learn to wait? It’s easy to believe that sometimes it takes years of teaching before we learn to wait. It is much easier to forge ahead than to stand still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, does not know what path to take. Then what will it do? Maybe, fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear or perhaps rush forward in presumption? No, it must simply wait.

Wait in prayer, however. Therefore Call on God and spread the case before Him. Go and tell Him your difficulty and plead His promise of aid. When in dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul on the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we are heavily willing to be guided by the will of God. But still wait in faith. Thus express your unstaggering confidence in Him. In fact unfaithful, untrusting waiting is an insult to the lord. Since this is true believe that He will come at the right time.

The vision will come and will not tarry. Therefore wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Hence never murmur as the children of Israel did against Moses. Never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is and put it, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God saying, ”Now, Lord, not my will, but yours be done. I do not know what to do. But I will wait until You drive back my foes. I will wait, for my heart is fixed on You alone, O God, and my spirit waits for you in the full conviction that You will be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my stronger tower.”