All of us, at some point in our lives, have wanted something so badly that, we have a built-in desire to obtain those things we want in a timely manner.
Psalm 27 : 14 says, "Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the Lord!" is definitely a message that God is trying to get through to us. Patience, or waiting on the Lord, is something that we often struggle with. We know of the promises that God has made, and we know that God answers prayers. We also know that all of these things come in God's timing and not our own.
In Psalm 27, the psalmists also had desires, and also made many requests of the Lord.The psalmist comes to the conclusion that he must indeed wait on the Lord. We often expect God to be our "waiter" giving us all of the things we need and want. Waiting on God is indeed a difficult lesson to learn, but we know that if we can ever master this lesson, our lives will be much more full and peaceful. If we realize at the start that we may have to wait on something, we can then set that thing aside and concentrate our efforts elsewhere while we wait on God to move, rather than sulking in our impatience and trying to make things happen in our own timing. While we wait on God, we can be waiters for God and serve Him.
Psalm 27:14
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the Lord!
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