Soul Upsize
Waiting is a difficult thing. Especially when you want something so badly. For days, i tried to piece together bits and pieces of experiences that i could share with regards to the matter of 'trust'. Today, as i came across the devotional material, i thought it to be apt. It summarises everything i want to say.
I would like to share the following with those who are down-hearted and low spirited.
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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 guess it's time for me to take a backseat, and let Him take the spotlight. Or perhaps, it's time for you to let go, and let God.