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WORSHIPING IN WAITING

Our worship is often tested in whether we can wait for God. God’s ways are not our ways, neither are His thoughts ours (Isa 55:8). In our waiting, patience is built up. Sometimes, waiting results in losses. But these losses are necessary for the larger spiritual gains we will have. Waiting on God may also mean that He is saving us from something that will come upon the world that He has ordained we escape. Many of God’s servants have waited on the Lord for long and dark periods.

The Joseph of Genesis is an example. His waiting was ordained in the prison (Gen 39:20). In this process, God checks our true motives and refines us. Jesus himself waited about thirty years to begin His ministry and this serves as the greatest example for us if any of us think God does not will for man to wait. Job had many questions about the condition of his suffering, but he maintained his peace and said: When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold (Job 23:10). Many a time this waiting can be for an unanswered prayer. However, this is the goodness of God that he produces maturity in His children in unique and beautiful ways. One of them is waiting and, in the waiting, through our best worship.

“Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.” - G. Campbell Morgan

“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.” - Peter Marshall

“Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ‘shake well before using.’ That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.” - Vance Havner