I just wanna to share of what I have read in Our Daily Bread devotion yesterday..... talking about waiting... and I think I have briefly scribbled about my situation, the waiting.. think I am always at this waiting season.. could it be for life? in different areas of life..... hehehe.. perhaps, that is some sense to that.. what do you think?
Anyway, I am going to do the cut and paste from Our Daily Bread... but if you wanna to listen to the audio version, click on the word "waiting" in blue in the above and it will bring you to the page of devotion.. click on the audio "Listen Now".. it is really good, to me it is.. hee..
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Waiting
Make haste to help me, O Lord!” the psalmist David prayed (Ps. 70:1). Like him, we don’t like to wait. We dislike the long lines at super-market checkout counters, and the traffic jams downtown and around shopping malls. We hate to wait at the bank or at a restaurant.
And then there are the harder waits: a childless couple waiting for a child; a single person waiting for marriage; an addict waiting for deliverance; a spouse waiting for a kind and gentle word; a worried patient waiting for a diagnosis from a doctor.
What we wait for, however, is far less important than what God is doing while we wait. In such times He works in us to develop those hard-to-achieve spiritual virtues of meekness, kindness, and patience with others. But more important, we learn to lean on God alone and to “rejoice and be glad” in Him (v.4).
F. B. Meyer said, “What a chapter might be written of God’s delays! It is the mystery of the art of educating human spirits to the finest temper of which they are capable. What searchings of heart, what analyzings of motives, what testings of the Word of God, what upliftings of soul. . . . All these are associated with those weary days of waiting, which are, nevertheless, big with spiritual destiny.” — David H. Roper
Be still, My child, and know that I am God! Wait thou patiently—I know the path you trod.
So falter not, nor fear, nor think to run and hide,
For I, thy hope and strength, am waiting by thy side.
—Hein
God stretches our patience to enlarge our soul.
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I always like it when my deepest part of soul is being stirred when I read something or when I hear certain words or phrases... There are those sounds of clicking when that happens.. Just amazing how God always does that, particularly when the timing is just right!
Today, I just thought that ya.. think the truth is there will always be pocket of time of waiting in life.. In fact, there will be overlapping of pocket of time of waiting.. and it is good for our soul, my soul in particular because I recognise it for myself. He desires to enlarge our soul and our faith in Him.. To have faith is be able to wait in Him.. Hebrews 11:1 says "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." and there is the "waiting" bit somewhere inside there though not directly mentioned.. if we think abit further into the verse...
Hmmm.. Perhaps, I should even consider writing a book on "waiting" since I have gone through many stretches of waiting and am currently in one stretch? hehehe.. that is one of my dreams.. Dreams keep me alive! tee-hee-hee..
So.. what is God doing while I wait? and what am I doing while I wait? There are two folds to this.. and it is fun to discover.. to try things.. to do stuff... to meet people that I never dream of meeting.... Not because I am in UK but because there are more reflection moments in God to think about why I am doing what I am doing.. A new change of environment possibly grant me more inspiration to do that more deliberately especially being away so far... Having said that, this reflection moments is something which I hope to do even more in the days to come.. especially so when I am "really" busy.. I am reminded of again how Jesus always does it.. where in Mark 1:35 says "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." Those are what I call reflection moments.. going to God.. talking to Him and listening to Him..
Talking about that, I realise that I can talk to God alot but do I listen to Him? Interesting perspective but it is there.. and in the Vine that I have read talked about that bit... where there is a phrase that says "Now, since God designed the plan for your life, don't you think it's wise to get quiet before Him so that He can tell you about it?" hehe.. very true, isn't it? that blowed me away when I read it yesterday... Click here for this devotion reading in the Vine.... I am sure anyone who read it would be encouraged as much as I have or even more......
Well.. I am waiting in the Lord (more willingly this time but there were many times of unwillingness in the past and that again showed proof that I am a needy gal who has got much to learn! hehehe).. and praying that I would be more deliberate in listening to what He is saying.. And, this is my prayer for everyone too... *wink*
