Wait on the Lord
Psalms 27:14 - Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
When we read this scripture which talks about waiting on the Lord, we consider this waiting as lying on back and taking it easy - waiting. The waiting this scripture is talking about is not a patient waiting but an impatient waiting. It is an intensive waiting which the Lord asks us to take.
How are we to take this intensive waiting?
If we read the previous lines of this scripture the psalmist says -
Psalms 27:13 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
The words 'I had fainted' are added to the original text to make it easy to read. So if we read just the original text, it says 'unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living'.
We all know in Heaven it will be a blessed living, but the Psalmist takes an aggressive stance and wants to see it now in this world. That is the kind of waiting we are supposed to take; an eager, relentless and full of expectation waiting.
For this we need to have strength (good courage) and the Lord will help increase our strength further till we receive our deliverance.
AMEN
