Wait!

Wait!

I wait [patiently] for the Lord, my soul [expectantly] waits, And in His word do I hope. Psalms 130:5 AMP

The Foundation:

Waiting can be a dangerous game. The world does not usually promote waiting, because it does not understand the value. The world teaches all who are in it to fight for all they want before it is all gone, and that would be true because the world's supply is indeed limited. The world wants to project an image of abundance and prosperity, but it is clear that not much of the world's supply can be sustained. This is why the men of the world don't wait; they grab what they can, and hoard as much as they can. That is why today's world is the way it is: men do not care about others except themselves, and while some are dying from lack, others are dying from excess. The world has to sit back and learn a fundamental truth from the Word, and this truth is 'waiting is great'.

The Expectation:

The one you wait for is very critical to your expectation. The psalmist here made it clear who he was waiting for. It was not so much a thing, but a person. This is quite important: do not hang your hopes and dreams on what a man promises, but hang on to the One who does not fail. Things are to be acquired, used, replaced or then dumped and the cycle goes on and on. It means that whatever it is you have now cannot really satisfy you; you will always need a new one or another one. That is the language the world understands. There is the Lord who this writer waited for at the time, and he encourages us also to wait for this Lord. If there were no benefits, the writer will not stake his life and hopes on someone who could not be trusted.

The Conclusion:

The attitude is to wait with patience. There is a waiting that may look like waiting, but it is just until the next option comes around. I must make sure I am not just marking time on one spot, but busy at my duty post, wherever and whatever it may be that God has commissioned me to do. There has to be an expectation at the end of my waiting, so that hope can be kept alive. It is hope that makes pain worth it. I know that there are blessings at the end of the wait. Of course, God's Word is the basis of the hope, because that is the only person who cannot fail, and will outlive all of the world. That is power, and that is what the world needs to embrace and surrender to. The psalmist had made up his mind; I also have a personal decision to make. God's time of favour is here.