FAITH CAPSULE: In life, there is much to gain and not lose from waiting on God.

1 Samuel 13

Waiting on God is seeking God. Waiting on God demands patience. Waiting on God is an avenue of resting on God while waiting for answer. Waiting on God is not to waste time.
God in His goodness extends assurance of waiting for those who wait for Him. Isaiah 30:18 stated, “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 and His word cannot be broken. God, in His goodness and mercy will not fail when we wait on Him. By virtue of His word that cannot be broken, it is written, “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 demands waiting on God. What will cost man not to wait on God? Absolutely nothing cost to wait but to wait on God.
It is written in Lamentation 3:25 buttressed, “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seek Him.” Evidently there are so many benefits to gain from waiting. Isaiah 40:31 testified, “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) In this world journey demands strength that is obtainable in waiting on God. Waiting and obtaining strength will get man to the expected end. For man that waits on God, it will be impossible to walk in the place to run. Also, it will be impossible to run where the journey demands walking. Have you been walking where your journey demands 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 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 getting to expected end in the journey of life. Samuel commanded King Saul to wait for burnt offering. King Saul could not wait but wrongly engaged sacrificial offering. Samuel responded to King Saul’s inability to wait stating, “…but now your kingdom shall not continue…” (1 Samuel 13:14) King Saul could not wait but failed in the journey of expected end.

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