Wait On The Lord.
Waiting is one of the most excruciating things that we as humans have to experience from time to time. Even though it is part of our daily lives we seem never to come to be used to this great test of patience called waiting. This can be waiting for a loved one to return from a trip, waiting for a doctor’s appointment, waiting for the birth of a new child, or waiting for a breakthrough in some area of your life it is all waiting and it usually tests our patience. It is in the process of waiting that others lose hope and opt for other options which usually are lower in value or quality than that which they were initially waiting for.
Psalms 27:13 -14. (KJV) says, “l had fainted unless l had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart. Wait l say on the Lord”. Let's hear from the Message bible version of the same scripture, it reads, “l am sure now you will see God's goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God, take heart don't quit. I will say it again stay with God”. The writer is very honest and open with us that he almost fainted, he almost lost it, almost gave up on life unless he had believed that l will see things change and see the goodness of God while he was still alive. Then alongside that testimony, he gives an exaltation or instruction if we may call it. The encouragement is to wait on the Lord. He repeats this twice in the same verse. The Message says “stay with God”.
It is apparent and inevitable that at some point life will happen to us, challenging circumstances will arise, and difficult times will come our way but the important thing we must never forget is to wait on the Lord. To wait on the Lord is different from waiting for the Lord. The word “on” used in the phrase is used as a function word to indicate one’s position or location. It, therefore, means that in all our waiting we need to be in the Lord. Yes, we can also wait for the Lord to work but it is much more beneficial to wait on the Lord. As rightly put across by the Message version “stay with God”. Many things happen to us in life that can easily drive us away from God. It can be successes, it can be failures, it can be the pains of life or the glory of it. No matter what it is let your wait be in the Lord. Many people have been driven away from God by the happenstances of life, but you decide that everything that will happen to me will draw me even closer and closer to my God.
Waiting on the Lord comes with a wonderful promise, a promise of strength from the Lord. The Psalmist said, “Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart”. He did not say that life will be without challenges, no! rather he said we will have access to help which is the needed strength. The strength will help us either to endure the season of challenges or the strength to change the situation. The same promise is given in Isaiah 40:32 (NKJV) “But those who wait on 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”. Therefore, I say wait on the Lord. We wait on the Lord by spending our time with Him, in prayers, in fellowship, in His word, and in doing His work.
