Wait on the Lord (1-6-12)

Psalm 27:14 - "Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord."

Waiting on the Lord is essential in the christian life. All throughout the Bible we're given exhortation after exhortation to wait on the Lord, and often it's accompanied with a promise. Often when we're at crucial or big decisions in our lives we get uncomfortable under the pressure and we feel like we need to do something right now before it's too late. But Gods plan for our lives is to wait on Him. When we're at a loss of what to do and we're seeking Gods guidance it sometimes feels like God has hidden His face from us, like Isaiah says in Isaiah 8:17 - "And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him." Of course we always do need to be seeking Gods will for our lives, and He has a specific, perfect plan just for you, but if we act hastily or out of fear we may miss that will. We need to be seeking His face and waiting on Him for His perfect timing in all things. Waiting on God is how God conditions us, and gets us to the point where we will accept His will, whatever it may be. Waiting on God is an essential factor in the christian life, and the vast majority of our mistakes are due to the neglect of it. The psalmist says in Psalm 25:3 - " Indeed, none of those who wait for Thee will be ashamed." We never need to worry about waiting on the Lord. I'm driven by goals, and I always feel like I need to be doing something, but sometimes God just wants us to wait on Him. When I'm waiting I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything, but it's in that time of waiting that God is accomplishing something in me. We're preserved due to waiting, Psalm 25:21 - "Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for Thee." Twice in Psalm 62 the psalmist says "My soul waits in silence for God only." When we're waiting on God it's good to just stop and let Him speak to us. Open His word and let Him communicate with us. And it's His word that gives us guidance and hope, Psalm 130:5 - "I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, and in His word do I hope."

Isaiah 40:30-31 - "Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait upon the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary."