Wait! Answers on the
way!!
Verse for Today: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Psalms 38:15 – I wait for You,
O Lord; You will answer, O Lord my God!
In the midst of intense trials
and tribulations, it is not easy to wait for any meaningful time frame. The
tough situations that we encounter will make us impatient and restless.
Sometimes we tend to quit and at other times we resort to fight back. But to
wait for God to handle our situation demands tremendous patience and maturity.
The need of the hour is to wait for the Lord to speak to us. But when we are
sure that the Lord has spoken to us, we must take heed to His admonition. We
find David waiting for the Lord to help him with the next step in his sojourn.
Joseph and Daniel kept quiet in their extremely volatile situations and found
God’s answers to their situations. Nehemiah kept building the walls of
Jerusalem. Paul continued his ministry in different places even when some
people rejected him in Jerusalem and Rome. David’s willingness to wait for God
is voluntary submission to His time to go to the next step in his life. It
shows his total surrender which comes from the conviction that God alone would
be able to handle his situation. His sufferings from the hands of the enemy did
not make him respond in kind, but with patience and endurance. David believed
that there would be justice from God and that God would respond to his enemies
who tried to persecute him without any reason. So David kept sending his
prayers off to the Throne of Grace and waited for His answers. His prayers came
out of his ardent belief that his God would show him a way out of his situation
at the right time. David’s experience tells us today to keep praying and
waiting for God to deal in our bitterest situations for justice, peace and
rest.
Dear reader, are you going
through times of intense trials and tribulations in life? Is the heat of your
situation reaching unparalleled heights? Is your heart aching because of the
extent of evil intentions of your enemies? There is no reason to doubt evil
motives in the enemies because they are all instruments of the enemy of your
soul who wants to see you destroyed. But you know for sure that your God will not
permit your destruction and that He will not want to see you harmed. All your
prayers are registered in the presence of God who hears your utterances and
accepts your petitions. Your voices of anguish and groaning have already
reached the presence of your God who will not sit idle when you are tampered
with. Your enemy will be made to understand that those who touch God’s beloved are
touching God Himself. Our God is a consuming fire who will react when His
children are mistreated and abused. But if we take revenge, we will deny God
the opportunity to handle the situation according to His sovereign will. David
sets a great example for us to handle persecution and persecutors in our daily lives.
Let us submit our concerns and burdens to the Lord with humility and perseverance
and wait for Him to act. Let us confess all our shortcomings so that nothing
will ever stand between our prayers and our God. When we pray with such a contrite heart, our
God will hear us and answer us at the right time to give us deliverance and
release from our painful situations. Let us today allow God to take full
control of our situations so that all glory for all that happens to us will go
to Him alone.
Psalms 46:10 – Be still and
know that I am God.
Thought for Today
They that wait for the Lord’s time will see how He answers our prayers
to handle our situations.
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