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Saturday... It is a difficult word but at certain times it is necessary.


Saturday... It is a difficult word but at certain times it is necessary.

I go to two different coffee shops six days a week and I have problems with waiting for my drink. At one of them I pre-order and it is usually there when I walk in and the other one, they see me coming and they usually have it there when I walk in but today I had to wait.  I must have needed this verse today.

Now waiting can be difficult but there is another word that I see in Proverbs 20:22 (AMP) that makes a big difference. Here is what the verse says, "Do not say, 'I will repay evil.'; wait [expectantly] for the Lord, and He will rescue and save you."

Do you have some evil that has happened in your life and you are ready to do something about it? Taking care of evil toward you by someone else is not to be taken care of by you. It is not a do situation it is a waiting situation, waiting expectantly for God to take care of it.

It is not a waiting with no hope, it is a waiting with expectancy. Psalm 80:3 says, "Restore us, O God; cause your face to shine on us [with favor and approval]. and we will be saved." That attitude of expectancy comes from experience.

The Psalmist writers over and over remember. Here in verses 8-11 (NLT) this writer says, "You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land. You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land. Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered mighty cedars. We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River." They remembered. 

Now I could wait expectantly this morning because I have come to this coffee shop over 300 times and I have always gotten my coffee. I have had to wait a few time but I always have gotten it. 

Now here is also the key. I have never, ever gone behind the counter and gotten my own coffee. That is their job.  And when evil has happened to me I need to see that it is God's job to take care of it. Proverbs 20:22 in the New Living Translation says, "Don't say, 'I will get even for the wrong.' Wait for the Lord to handle the matter." The Message says, "Don't ever say, 'I'll get you for that!' Wait for God; he'll settle the score." Our job is not to pour the coffee or get even for the wrong or repay the evil, or get them for what they did. Our job is to wait [expectantly] for the Lord', and you can know that "He will rescue and save you." 

Our job is to wait, expectantly. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning





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