I read some time back of a man who bought a parcel of ground for practically next to nothing. The brother then held on to the property for years. Finally, he sold the tract of land for a half million dollars. The point is, the fellow made hundreds of thousands of dollars by just waiting!
Many people though just can’t seem to wait. They sell out; they panic! They are like the sister who prayed, “Lord give me patience, RIGHT NOW!”
The country-western musical group Alabama once sang:
“I’m always in a hurry to get things done;
I rush and rush until life’s no fun.
All I really gotta do is live and die,
but I’m in a hurry and I don’t know why.”
David Roper notes in his excellent book, Psalm 23: The Song of the Passionate Heart, “The world intensifies our restlessness. Advertisements entice us to buy this, spend that, and to borrow against tomorrow SO WE CAN HAVE WHAT WE WANT TODAY. Generous incentives, rebates, mark-downs, sales packages, and good deals urge us on, creating desires that we never knew we had.”
That, “I’ve got to have it all, and I’ve got to have it now” drive is nearly everywhere. Fighting it is tough with a capital “T”.
My great-grandmother used to have a cute little plaque on her wall that said, “The
hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” That’s me! But that’s not God.
God has spoken. His Word is to be trusted. Things will work out. God is working and at the right time, the Lord’s time, the answer will come. Just wait. You’ll see! Philippians 1:6 promises, “... being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Someone wrote: “We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come.”
The poet penned:
I know that I am impatient, Lord,
I want to run ahead;
Speak to my heart and make me
Willing to be led.
Your clock is always right, Lord
It never does run late;
Your schedule can’t be hurried
So teach me, Lord, to wait.
Your time is never my time--
Oh, make this plain to me
And give me patience so to wait
And Thy fulfillment see.
I see through a glass darkly
And in this earthly state
I only know impatience,
So teach me, Lord, to wait.
I pray for Thy anointing,
I need Thy holy touch;
Oh, send me a full measure--
I need it, oh, so much.
Please keep me calm and trusting
In this world of strife and hate;
And ‘mid the hurrying, worrying throng
Oh, teach me, Lord, to wait.
You can be confident! Just wait, dear friends, and you will see “the Salvation of our Lord.”
The Redeemed Team
Many people though just can’t seem to wait. They sell out; they panic! They are like the sister who prayed, “Lord give me patience, RIGHT NOW!”
The country-western musical group Alabama once sang:
“I’m always in a hurry to get things done;
I rush and rush until life’s no fun.
All I really gotta do is live and die,
but I’m in a hurry and I don’t know why.”
David Roper notes in his excellent book, Psalm 23: The Song of the Passionate Heart, “The world intensifies our restlessness. Advertisements entice us to buy this, spend that, and to borrow against tomorrow SO WE CAN HAVE WHAT WE WANT TODAY. Generous incentives, rebates, mark-downs, sales packages, and good deals urge us on, creating desires that we never knew we had.”
That, “I’ve got to have it all, and I’ve got to have it now” drive is nearly everywhere. Fighting it is tough with a capital “T”.
My great-grandmother used to have a cute little plaque on her wall that said, “The
hurrier I go, the behinder I get.” That’s me! But that’s not God.
- I can’t remember God ever getting in a hurry, getting in a rush, or ahead of Himself.
- Can you? He knows what He is doing and why. He sees the end from the beginning--and all that’s in between. GOD HAS PURPOSE!
- Listen to the emphasis of these verses:
- Psalm 27:14, “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”
- Psalm 37:7,9, “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men
- Isaiah 40:31 (New King James Version), “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.”
God has spoken. His Word is to be trusted. Things will work out. God is working and at the right time, the Lord’s time, the answer will come. Just wait. You’ll see! Philippians 1:6 promises, “... being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Someone wrote: “We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come.”
The poet penned:
I know that I am impatient, Lord,
I want to run ahead;
Speak to my heart and make me
Willing to be led.
Your clock is always right, Lord
It never does run late;
Your schedule can’t be hurried
So teach me, Lord, to wait.
Your time is never my time--
Oh, make this plain to me
And give me patience so to wait
And Thy fulfillment see.
I see through a glass darkly
And in this earthly state
I only know impatience,
So teach me, Lord, to wait.
I pray for Thy anointing,
I need Thy holy touch;
Oh, send me a full measure--
I need it, oh, so much.
Please keep me calm and trusting
In this world of strife and hate;
And ‘mid the hurrying, worrying throng
Oh, teach me, Lord, to wait.
You can be confident! Just wait, dear friends, and you will see “the Salvation of our Lord.”
The Redeemed Team
