Jonah was only in the belly of a whale for 3 days...LOL....Moses was in the desert for 40 years and Joseph waited 13 years, most of which was in jail...!! Abraham waited 25 years and Jesus waited 30 years, to die BTW...!! So, if you are concerned over a wait of some kind...Fear Not for you are in Good Company!! I was thinking this morning about the Wait....
Principle: When the wait you have is not on the Lord it's a painful wait that's tough to Face!!
However, when you wait upon the Lord, the Bible tells us that we will renew our strength and will rise up with wings as eagles, that we will soar and never grow weary (paraphrase mine)!!
Please consider being "in" His time..no matter the wait, and no matter the pain..we have "gain" in He who is above time and space....His promises are true and everlasting...His rewards beyond imagination. In fact, ponder this principle,
Principle: When the wait you have is not on the Lord it's a painful wait that's tough to Face!!
However, when you wait upon the Lord, the Bible tells us that we will renew our strength and will rise up with wings as eagles, that we will soar and never grow weary (paraphrase mine)!!
Isaiah 40:31 New International Version (NIV)
31 but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Interestingly, the NIV uses the word Hope here and that is absolutely perfect!! Know what? Waiting on the Lord is Hoping in Him and in His strength and power that the best is coming...!! Painfully waiting on something today?? Trust me...no don't ...LOL Trust God that you are waiting and hoping in something that is not God!! False hope in some worldly contract or device is meaningless and bound for nowhere fast!! Quickly wait upon the Lord and even if the outcome is death..remember that He reserved that for His one and only son....!! He always takes the ugliest things and makes them the most beautiful...
Also, consider these words from Spurgeon's sermon on the "I am"
Also, consider these words from Spurgeon's sermon on the "I am"
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow belong to dying mortals; the Immortal King lives in an eternal today. He is the I AM; I AM in the present; I AM in the past; and I AM in the future. Just as we say of God that he is everywhere, so we may say of Him that He is always; He is everywhere in space; He is everywhere in time. God is today in the past; He is today already in the future; He is today in that present in which we are.
Principle: The more pain in the game the greater the reward in His name.
My Grandfather once said that there was simply no reason to worry because the one who is the way
makes the way...!! I love the maker of my way...He is the way and the truth and the life....Let Him be the real source upon whom you wait out this current storm and watch for the rainbows...whenever rain and light get together, the rainbows of His promise are coming.
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