Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I
will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Have you
ever heard of a book, Expectation Corners? It tells of a king who prepared
a city for some of his poor subjects. Not far from them were storehouses where
everything they could need was supplied if they sent in their requests. But, on
one condition—they should be on the lookout for the answer, so when the king’s
messengers came with the answer to their petitions, they should be found
waiting to receive them. The sad story is told of one person who never expected
to get what he asked, he was too unworthy. One day, he was taken to the king’s
storehouses, and there, to his amazement, he saw all the packages that had been
made up for him and sent. They had been to his door but found it closed; he was
not on the lookout. From that time on, he learned the lesson from Micah: “I
will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will
hear me.”
A joyful
expectancy is the essence of true waiting. Not only in reference to the many
requests every believer has to make, but most to the one great petition which
ought to be the chief thing every heart seeks—that the life of God in the soul
may have full sway, that we may be filled to all the fullness of God. This is
what God has promised. This is what God’s people too little seek, because they
do not believe it possible. This is what we ought to seek and dare to expect,
because God is able and waiting to work it in us.
But, God
Himself must work it. And for this end our working must cease. We must see how
entirely it is to be the faith of the operation of God, who raised Jesus from
the dead. Just as much as the resurrection, the perfecting of God’s life in our
souls is to be directly His work. And, waiting has to become, more than ever, a
tarrying before God in stillness of soul, counting upon Him who raises the dead
and calls the things that are not as though they were.
Romans 4:17
as it is written, “I have made you the
father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who
gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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