Waiting! How many of you enjoy the idea of waiting for something, anything? We have numerous examples throughout the bible of people having to wait for God to move in their lives. Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the Israelites, the woman with the issue of blood, and so on. These are just a few of the people who had to learn to wait on God.
And did you know that King David had to wait over 20 years from the time he was anointed King to the time he became king of all Israel? Why the wait and why so long? Psalm 27:14 encourages us to learn to wait. It says, “Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord!”
Have you ever prayed and asked the Lord to make you wait? If you have ever asked Him to help you, if you have ever asked Him to strengthen your heart, if you have ever asked Him to help you get through something, then you have asked Him to help you learn to wait. Our problems are not God’s emergencies.
Is it worth the wait to have your heart strengthened? Is it worth the wait to grow stronger today than you were yesterday? Is it worth the wait to be made better as He moves in your life and circumstance? I believe God wants us to know that waiting is part of the process of His moving in our lives.
Waiting is God’s way of teaching us how to talk with Him, how to hear Him, and how to recognize His ways. He teaches us how to be faithful when we wait. He teaches us how to be confident and not complain when we wait. He teaches us how to be content in great times and to be hopeful in difficult times when we have our time of waiting. I’d say all that is worth the wait.
But waiting also helps us to understand the idea of God’s timing. It is in waiting that we learn He will move in our lives in due time. In due time helps us to understand God will move in the right ways and at the right times. If God is going to take us through the river, He may have to teach us first how to swim. So, in due time, we will get across our rivers.
There is one thing we can do while we wait that will make the Lord keep His eyes on us and on the work that must be done in us as we wait. We can use the time we wait to learn to be humble and grateful. I believe humility and gratitude are the things that help the Lord to see that due time for us is closer today than it was yesterday.
1 Peter 5:6 says it this way, “Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.” Therefore, if you want the certainty of living in the grace of God and in knowing He is working in your circumstance, you must learn to be humble. But this is not just being humble in your tough circumstance, it is to be humble in life.
Resolve within yourself to make sure you live humbly in all things. If you must have your way to be happy, you are probably not humble. If you must be well in order to feel well, you are probably not humble. If you must have much to believe you can do much, you are probably not humble.
Humility as God sees it is the voluntary submission of yourself to the will of God. It is to wait on God to make the right things happen at the right times in the right ways here on earth for you. Humility is saying though this thing is mine, I will not possess it unless it is given to me of God. It is saying though I have the right to have the things I can through my own ability, I want to have only the thing given to me by the ability and will of God. Humility says in due time, the time for what is right for me to have or to do will come to me by the grace and the love of God.
In this way God will be glorified as He exalts you because of His great love for the humble of heart. This is why in due time the problems and issues of life for a humble person never seem to overcome them. Instead, in due time the humble person always seems to rise above the challenges to their lives.
Learn what it means to wait in humility on the Lord, and in due time you too will enjoy the exalted life of one whom the God of Creation continually blesses with His grace and favor.
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