Sunday Thoughts: Waiting on the Lord

I believe we can all agree that waiting is uncomfortable. A high school teacher once said she believed one of Hell’s features was waiting in line for all forever. The ready is the hardest part, according to Tom Petty, and I’m inclined to agree.

But did you know that God commands followers to wait for Him? In Psalms 13 and 14 from King David,” I believe that I will look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!” Wait for the LORD, get strong, and let your brain taking confidence, wait for the LORD”!

In this hymn, David wrote about contending with “evildoers”, “adversaries”, “foes”, and “enemies”, but he also expressed his confidence in the Lord to take care of him:

One thing I’ve asked the Lord for will be the one I seek after, including a desire to spend the rest of my time in his apartment, to gaze upon his beauty, and to inquire about his temple. For he will conceal me in his house in the event of difficulty, conceal me under the tent’s cover, and raise me high upon a stone.

Psalm 27: 4-5 ( ESV )

Our prayer is that when we need the Lord, He may intervene for us. But as we wait, we can rest assured that God did take care of us and that He is with us.

David is certain that he may discover God’s goodness in existence, writes Lucy Kemp in” This hymn of David speaks with trust.” No matter what God’s goodness is, waiting on Him and being eager in that waiting oftentimes comes at a price. He is our Lord, our companion, and our Savior.

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According to GotQuestions, “waiting on the Lord involves the comfortable desire of a good outcome in which we place a great hope.” This desire is based on having faith in and knowing God. Those who do not understand the Lord did not beg him or refuse to put their faith in Him. We may have faith in God and what He is capable of accomplishing. Whoever prays to the Lord keeps their spirits strong.

Our looking isn’t quiet, either. As we wait on the Lord, we’re constantly trusting, praying, seeking His would, and reading His Word. The Bible teaches that God rewards those who rely on Him.

I quietly waited for the Lord, he turned to me, and he audible my scream. He drew me away from the pit of death, out of the miry swamp, and set my foot upon a stone, making my actions secure. He praised our God in a fresh music that I could not possibly pronounce. Some people will be awestruck and afraid, and trust in the Lord.

Psalm 40: 1-3 ( ESV )

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the father of the heavens and the everlasting God. He does no slight or grow exhausted, his understanding is inaccessible. He gives strength to the slight, and to him who has no may he increases stamina. Yet boys shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted, but they who wait for the Lord shall maintain their strength, they may attach up with wings like birds, they may work and not be exhausted, they shall wander and never faint.

Isaiah 40: 28-31 ( ESV )

No one has ever seen or heard a God other than you, who acts for those who wait for him, since the age.

Isaiah 64: 4 ( ESV )

And this is the assurance that we have in him that if we ask anything contrary to his will, he did hear us. And if we are aware that he hears what we ask, we are aware that we have the demands we have for him.

1 John 5: 14-15 ( ESV )

So, since we have been justified by beliefs, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are able to enter this joy through him, and we are encouraged to believe in the power of God. Not only that, but we cheer in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces strength, and stamina produces character, and personality produces hope, and hope does not throw us to pity, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5: 1-5 ( ESV )

In order to ensure that you are never lacking in any gifts as you wait for the uncovering of our Lord Jesus Christ, who may preserve you until the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, I thank my God for the joy that was given to you in Christ Jesus, in order that you are always free in the midst of the innocent in the midst of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1: 4-8 ( ESV )

I don’t understand what you’re going through, but I know that chances are there’s some place in your life in which you’re waiting on the Lord. As you wait, continue to trust in Him, find Him, and practice patience. That patience did pay off in the end.

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