WAIT
Psalm 25

The way into God’s rest is in waiting on Him and not to wait on Him is the way to go astray. Going astray is rooted in the heart. Manifestly, any heart that goes astray will miss His way. God is a good God and to end in a bad way is not of God. This is to say what is not good is not God. God is a God of time and process. His time is not like man’s time; likewise His process is not any man’s process. God’s timing is perfect and His process is a preparation for where He has timed for every man to be. Waiting on God can be defined as: to remain unmoving, inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens; to look onward to expectation eagerly. Waiting on God is also putting off further activity until later. Waiting on God usually entails staying for a short or long time and for a definite purpose, that is, for something expected. Without absolute trust in waiting on God there will be no absolute result emerging from waiting on God. The Psalmist testifies, “O my God, I trust in You; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:2-3) Trusting in God is what energizes waiting on Him. Trusting in God does have blessings and not to trust in Him will also generate curses. God spoke in Jeremiah 17:5, “…Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord.”  As regard to blessing, the same word of God stated in Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” How can you wait on whom you do not trust? Evidently, having trust in place will enable waiting on Him. To wait on God is to gain rest in Him and not waiting on God is to waste. The children of Israel, when they failed to wait on God they wasted away in the wilderness. Psalm 106:13, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” There are so much to gain in waiting and nothing to lose from waiting on God’s timing. It is knowledge to wait on God. Understand the fear of God, find the knowledge of God and know to wait on the Lord because, “… those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.” (Psalm 37:9)

Prayer for today: Ask God to direct your heart that you may know when and how to wait on Him constantly.