Psalm 27:14 English Standard Version (ESV) Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Yesterday we spoke of spiritual loneliness and this was verse of the day from Biblegateway.

This begs the question, “What are we waiting for?”

David’s psalm is a king’s cry from a position of defense from attacks we cannot begin to relate to in our own personal lives. We do not have King David’s responsibility, we do not have his authority, and the problems we face today do not compare in context considering how much the world has advanced in the field of technology and the speed in which events happen.

What can compare is the honesty and confession of the condition which is in us. What is it we are waiting on? What do we expect of God? What have we asked of Him?

James 4:3 English Standard Version (ESV) You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Think of passions as emotions. We so often allow our emotions to lead our prayers in asking God to fix what is wrong according to our own desires. Asking for things to change according to our desires places God in a position to ignore our requests that are either in opposition to His will or that are detrimental to our relationship with Him.

So often it seems as if He is telling us not to ask for these things but when all we want is what we want, we stop listening to anything that does not satisfy our emotions. Insisting on getting our own way will cause us to ignore what God is doing around us during these times. God is always at work and yet we wait for answers to our own desires.

What are we to do while waiting on the Lord?