Are you waiting on God for something?
If you're a believer, chances are you understand what I mean by "impatience with God." We wait for him to help us, and he tarries. We pray for years about something, only to grow disillusioned with Jesus' command to pray without ceasing.
How do we wait? Do we just pray and carry on? Is there some activity we must do, or frame of mind we are to have, to wait correctly?
I have many questions. Even after coming across verses such as "Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord" (Ps. 27:14), I still find my heart weakening.
In Tim Tucker's excellent short eBook called Waiting vs. Working (free download here), I learned about Andrew Murray (1828-1917), a South African pastor who served in the second half of the 19th century.
I've found Murray's book, Waiting on God (1896), to be extremely helpful, with much wisdom for Christians today.
Murray begins with an encouraging foundation: "God unceasingly giving and working; His child unceasingly waiting and receiving; this is the blessed life."
Those desiring their "best life now" will be disappointed in the premise of this book. The blessed life, Murray says, comes from waiting, not human effort.
In the next several posts, we will look at how to wait in a way that helps us find this blessing.
Anticipating him,
Tom Harper
Founder, BiblicalLeadership.com
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