FAITH CAPSULE: Do right, let understanding occupy your waiting on God

1 Samuel 13

Wait on God, deny worrying to gain from God.
Waiting on God is seeking God. 
Waiting on God demands patience. 
Waiting on God is an avenue of resting on God for the manifestation of expectation at the appointed time of God.
God, in His goodness, extends assurance of waiting for those who wait for Him. 
Isaiah 30:18 states, “Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore, He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice.” 
God does not lie. 
God, in His goodness and mercy, will not fail when waiting for Him. 
The assurance of waiting on God to gain His presence states, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.” (Isaiah 64:4) 
God is the God who acts for the ones who wait for Him. 
Are you waiting on God for direction and deliverance? 
In this wickedness, understanding and knowledge demand waiting on God. 
What is it that will deny you from not waiting on God? Lamentation 3:25 assures the goodness of God in waiting for those who wait on Him, “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seek Him.” 
There are many benefits to gain from waiting on God. 
Isaiah 40:31 testifies, “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.” (Isaiah 40:31) 
Journeying in this world demands strength that is obtainable in waiting on God. 
Waiting on God to gain strength will get one to the expected end. 
For one that waits on God, such will walk in the place to run. 
Also, it will be impossible to run where the journey demands walking. Have you been walking in the place to run?
A failure to meditate on the word of God is an avenue to forget His works and not wait on Him.
The Israelites failed to meditate and could not wait on God as they wasted away in the wilderness. Psalm 106:13-14, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.”
King Saul could not wait but failed to get to the expected end of the journey of life. 
Samuel commanded King Saul to wait for a burnt offering. 
King Saul could not wait but wrongly engaged in sacrificial offerings. Samuel responded to the failure of King Saul, not waiting on God, “…but now your kingdom shall not continue…” (1 Samuel 13:14)
King Saul could not wait but failed in the journey of the expected end.
From this beginning, wait on God as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the understanding and knowledge to be waiting on God.