Wait On the Lord!

Psalms 27:13-14 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!

The one thing many of us do not do well is waiting. We get impatient, begin to stress, and that inevitably leads us down the path of planning and scheming about how to resolve our problems, using our own wisdom. It becomes a recipe for disaster. Sadly, we often use the excuse, "The Lord is leading me to do it this way." Yet, if we were to step back and take an honest look at what we were about to do, we would have to admit that the choice we were about to make did not line up with what the Lord would really have us do. It is during troubling times, when it seems like everyone, everything, and life itself, is against us, that we run the greatest danger of failing to wait on the Lord. King David was confident in the Lord's protection. He recognized that the Lord was his strength. Because he had faith in that truth, he did not fear man. Today, we should be able to proclaim the same truth. Hebrews 13:5-6 is a wonderful reminder of God's continuous presence, and the fact that He is our Helper; therefore, we need not fear what man can do to us. Having faith, and confidence, in that truth should give us the courage we need to wait on the Lord, even through the toughest of circumstances. So I repeat the exhortation today, "Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!"

Today, God extends an invitation to you to accept His free gift of salvation (Rom 6:23). Will you accept it? Anyone who calls on Jesus, by faith, in repentance, confessing your sins, will receive eternal life. Do not put off calling on Him, and receive Him and His free gift of salvation today (Rom 10:13).