Skip to main content

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


 

 


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...
Post a Comment
Read more