Spurgeon: August AM
* 08/30/AM
"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."