Morning, August 30

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"Wait on the Lord."

  Psalm 27:14

   It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which
   a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and
   quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.
   There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously
   desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what
   shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the
   right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply
   wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case
   before him; tell him your difficulty, and plead his promise of aid. In
   dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a
   child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be
   well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily
   willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express
   your unstaggering confidence in him; for unfaithful, untrusting
   waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if he keep you
   tarrying even till midnight, yet he will come at the right time; the
   vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not
   rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God
   for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of
   Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world
   again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply
   and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your
   covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but thine be done. I
   know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until
   thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if
   thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon thee alone, O God,
   and my spirit waiteth for thee in the full conviction that thou wilt
   yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."