What Does It Mean to Wait on the Lord?
What does it mean to wait on the Lord?
To trust His timing in whatever situation you are in, or someone you love is in, or someone you don't love is in (remembering Christ loved us when we were unlovely).
To take the Lord at His word when He says:
"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care for itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own" (Matthew 6:34).
To trust these words from James:
"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (1:2-4).
And this also from James:
"Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom" (3:13).
And this further from James:
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.' Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that'" (4:11-13).
We need to pray as Moses did in Psalm 90:
"You have placed our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days have declined in Your fury; we have finished our years like a sigh. As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, but their pride is but labor and sorrow. For soon it is gone and we fly away. Who understands the power of Your anger and Your fury, according to the fear that is due You? So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom" (90:8-12).
Waiting on the Lord means trusting in His timing and making our plans according to His will as we know it to b, not anxious regarding what we don't know, obedient to what we do know.
To trust His timing in whatever situation you are in, or someone you love is in, or someone you don't love is in (remembering Christ loved us when we were unlovely).
To take the Lord at His word when He says:
"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care for itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own" (Matthew 6:34).
To trust these words from James:
"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (1:2-4).
And this also from James:
"Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom" (3:13).
And this further from James:
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.' Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that'" (4:11-13).
We need to pray as Moses did in Psalm 90:
"You have placed our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days have declined in Your fury; we have finished our years like a sigh. As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years, but their pride is but labor and sorrow. For soon it is gone and we fly away. Who understands the power of Your anger and Your fury, according to the fear that is due You? So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom" (90:8-12).
Waiting on the Lord means trusting in His timing and making our plans according to His will as we know it to b, not anxious regarding what we don't know, obedient to what we do know.
posted by Ebeth | 8:54 AM
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