We want to be noticed for what we have done, but impatient faith that is not focused on God is no faith at all. It can only yield humanistic fruit, the fruit of the flesh that Paul describes. To wait is to understand your place. To wait is to realize who the great God of heaven and earth is. To know who He is and who we are and understand the difference.
We don’t like to wait. In our hurry-up world, we equate waiting with inactivity, but in God’s kingdom (as usual) that mentality is backward.
Everything begins and moves by waiting.
The Shepherd-King who knew God best understood this. It was David’s constant prayer that he would wait well, for he knew that everything depended on this blessed practice.
Make me know Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day. (Psalm 25:4-5)
Waiting Is Not Passive
To wait on the Father is to turn our attention to Him; to aggressively and patiently look and listen to Him so we can learn His ways, see His path, understand His truth, and then (and only then) move at His initiation.
It is our pride that pulls us away.
We arrogantly think we can make the decisions, find the path, produce the results that are needed without God. So, we move out quickly.
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