Wait for the Lord

I find it very interesting that it is impossible to come to the end of learning.  Regardless of how much you know on a particular topic there is still much more that one can learn on that topic.  What is true in the natural world is even more true in the spiritual world.  I have been meditating upon Psalm 127:13-14 "I am still confident of this, that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of living.  Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart, wait for the Lord."  As I was on a walk praying and thinking about this verse it came to me that the word 'for' was a very important word in the context.  While the word 'in' is used much more in the context of the phrase 'the Lord'; hope in the Lord, trust in the Lord, have faith in the Lord, rejoice in the Lord and etc, the phrase 'wait for the Lord' only appears in 7 verses.  The contrast that the Lord impressed upon my heart is when I trust in the Lord or rejoice in the Lord that I have an active part in the process but when I am call to wait for the Lord, I am to do nothing until God initiates some kind of activity.  Psalm 27:13 is speaking of the psalmist trust and confidence in God and then he realized that then he needed to wait for the activity of God to begin before he did anything else.  He was confident that He was going to see God in action within his daily life situation.  After sensing that contrast then I begin to think 'how am I to wait for the Lord?'  Obviously this calls for patience of which I do not have nearly enough.  Does this mean I do nothing?  I think we still need to do something but must of our doing now needs to surround being more spiritually observant to look at life with spiritual eyes and ears.  If we begin to do a lot of things it can clearly hinder our ability to observe the activity of God.  The call of Psalm 27:14 is the wait for the Lord and by repeating that phrase in the same verse means just how important it is to allow God to initiate the activity that He is going to do in the land of the living.  This may not have been new to you but it was a fresh revelation for me last night to wait for the activity of God in the land of the living before I try to do something that He does not want me to do.
May God give you spiritual eyes to see what He is doing and grant you spiritual ears to hear what He is saying.

Pastor John