FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is giving attention to a jealous God.

Luke 15:11-32

Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking is a demonstration of the evidence of having faith in the One you are looking up to.
Hebrews 12:2 described Jesus, “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Jesus the author of our faith gave us the way of waiting by stating, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”(Matthew 7:7-8)
Truly waiting on Him demands trusting and hoping by asking, seeking and knocking before we get the right answer. When there is no waiting on God man often rush away for answer and become wasted.
King Saul could not wait as instructed and it was accounted to him as disobedient.
To obey and wait is to trust and hope on God.
Waiting on God is giving attention to a jealous God. Psalmist admonished, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3) A believer in God must understand that to wait out endure a period of waiting. Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.
God testified about David when Saul failed to wait on God. God spoke through Samuel for Saul’s disobedience, “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14)
David knows the heart of God to understanding what it means to always wait. David, despite of his knowing and understanding of God’s heart he never disobey by not waiting on God before making moves. Number of times David repeatedly ask the same question waiting to get a go ahead direction from God.
The bible recorded about prodigal son that does not know to wait for God’s timing, “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.” (Luke 15:11-13)
Younger son could not wait for father’s timing. Are you going ahead of God instead of waiting on God? Without doubt, waiting leads to wasting. Know and understand to wait on God, keep on asking, seeking and knocking persistently for your answer to come.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of understanding to know God about waiting on Him.