Psalm 27:14 English Standard Version (ESV) Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Yesterday our discussions ended with this comment, “What are we to do while waiting on the Lord?”
Those of us that have served in the military answer that question with “Follow our last orders until new orders are received.” That is an excellent answer only to the few that have an identifiable call to serve in one or more of the service gifts. What about the rest of us? That is not an easy question to answer.
The answer for any individual has to come during our quiet time with the Lord. Only He can answer what is required of us when we do not know what to do next.
Galatians 5:17 English Standard Version (ESV) For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
The flesh will tell us to do what we want to do. It will want us to react to every whim of emotion that is in direct opposition of the spirit. That is what the flesh does. We all have regrets associated with emotional outburst. Waiting on the Lord will heighten the desires for the flesh to “just do something”.
If there is any wisdom to be found in waiting perhaps it is this; don’t act in haste. Use the quiet time waiting on the Lord to explore the intentions of the heart, our new heart, the dwelling place of the Most High.
Psalm 139:15-16 English Standard Version
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
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