Waiting on God

Above everything, when you wait on God, do so in the spirit of abounding hopefulness. It is God in His glory, in His power, in His love, longing to bless you that you are waiting on.”

One of the chief needs in our waiting upon God, one of the deepest secrets of its blessedness and blessing, is a quiet, confident persuasion that it is not in vain.

Let nothing in heaven or earth or hell keep you from waiting on your God in full assurance that it cannot be in vain.

The one lesson our text teaches us is this: when we set ourselves to wait on God we should resolve beforehand that it will be with the most confident expectation of God’s meeting and blessing us. We should make up our minds that nothing was ever as sure as the fact that waiting on God will bring us untold and unexpected blessing

A soul cannot seek close fellowship with God, or attain the abiding consciousness of waiting on Him all the day, without a very honest and entire surrender to all His will.

Waiting on God, unceasing and entire dependence upon Him, is the only true faith in heaven and earth, the one unalterable and all-comprehensive expression for the true relationship to the ever-blessed One in whom we live.

And when you are praying, let there be intervals of silence, reverent stillness of soul, in which you yield yourself to God, in case He may have other things He wishes to teach you or to work in you. Waiting on Him will become the most blessed part of prayer, and the blessing thus obtained will be doubly precious as the fruit of such fellowship with the Holy One.

“Truly my soul waiteth upon God; from him cometh my salvation.” First, we wait on God for salvation. Then, we learn that salvation is only to bring us to God and teach us to wait on Him. Then, we find what is better still: that waiting on God is itself the highest salvation. It is ascribing to Him the glory of being All; it is experiencing that He is All to us. May God teach us the blessedness of waiting on Him!

Just as this is the very place and nature of God, to be unceasingly the supplier of every want, so the very place and nature of man is nothing but this—to wait upon God and receive from Him what He alone can give, what He delights to give.