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Saturday... Two very interesting words put together.


Saturday... Two very interesting words put together.

Now one of them makes the other one difficult to do. Here is how David starts Psalm 40. The opening line of verse 1 (AMP) says, "I waited patiently and expectantly." Now there really are three words that don't seem to go together but really are successful words together.

The first one is "waited." Waiting can be so difficult.  It really can. We took two of our granddaughters out last night to eat and we waited it seemed a long time for our food. We were under a time frame so the longer we waited the more anxious we got. 


So I didn't really do the second word. I didn't wait "patiently". Yes, to wait successfully we need to be patient, don't we?

But then David says, "patiently and expectantly." Have you found that the trip going someplace take longer than going home. It is all in our expectation. We are so looking forward to getting there.

But that is not the end of the statement and the verse. It says, "I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord. And He inclined to me and heard my cry." The waiting patiently and expectantly on the Lord was the right thing to do.

Maybe you are in a situation where you are waiting on God and you need to wait expecting that he is going to answer, going to take care of it but you need to be patient. Now the expecting is faith and the waiting patiently is trust. We need to see that they fit together. David says, "He inclined to me and heard my cry." And he will to us too.

He then says in verse 2, "He brought me out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction] out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and established my path." The wait was worth it and it will be for us if we have faith and trust.

And then verse 4 says, "Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who makes the Lord his trust."

Look at Proverbs 10:28 (NLT), "The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing." So it matters who we are waiting patiently and expectantly on. It really does.

Remember, "I waited patiently and expectantly on the Lord." That is the key. "And He inclined to me and hears my cry." And that is the result.  Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


 

 


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