FAITH CAPSULE: In life, any time a decision not to wait has its way; it will not add up but take away life.

Luke 15:11-31, Psalm 37:1-9

Waiting on God is a source of God’s grace on anyone that takes to waiting on Him. Isaiah 30:18, “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; blessed are all those who wait for Him.” God will wait for those that wait on Him. Any time a decision not to wait has its way; it will not add up but take away.When the wind of lack and famine began to blow, the prodigal son was reduced from grace to survival. Things changed for the prodigal son and he could no longer belong to where he had longed for. Luke 15:15-16, “Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.” The prodigal son could not settle himself with the least of provisions that came his way. He has violated his ordained timing. The prodigal son missed it all. He had headed in the wrong direction. Any journey in the wrong direction is a journey into no direction. The prodigal son, having suffered deprivation, relegation, and self-inflicted abuse, came to himself. It is one thing to be able to identify a step in the wrong direction while continuing in the wrong direction, it is another thing to identify and turn back. The prodigal son came to himself; he did not continue in the wrong direction. It is written, “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.”’” (Luke 15: 17-18) At what point should we stop waiting on the Lord? At no point and there is no point to ever stop waiting on Him. Waiting is a demonstration of faith and faith is what pleases God concerning us. King David by virtue of his life experience encouraged, “Wait on the Lord: Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait I say on the Lord. (Psalm 27:14) God will not sleep nor slumber and He is mindful of all His children. Wait and not waste.  

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be constant and consistent in waiting on Him.