Wait On The Lord - Psalm 27:14

 

Psalm 27:14

Wait on The LORD: Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your 🧡. Wait, I say, on The LORD!

WAIT: anticipatory expectation to see what God will do and is doing 

    Here the psalmist leads the congregation into a hushed worship. We are instructed to wait, to be still, to be of good courage. 

    And then The Lord will strengthen our hearts. He will make Himself known to the hearts of those who have anticipated His arrival. 

    The collective "we" waited from time immemorial for the arrival of The Messiah. But when He arrived, only a few were happy to see Him. Fewer still were willing to follow Him and do the things He instructed. 

    All who have received Christ as Lord of their lives, and Savior of their eternal souls, wait for the trumpet to sound and The Lord to gather His church to Himself.  We wait for the marriage supper of The Lamb and His bride. 

    After that we will wait, while we serve, through His thousand year reign (Revelation 20:1-5). After the thousand years has passed, Satan will be loosed upon the unknown numbers of people who have repopulated the earth, trying to take some of them with him through his deceptions (Revelation 20:6-8). 

    For a brief time we will wait yet again for Satan and his minions to be defeated (Revelation 20:9-10). Then we wait through the second resurrection, when the damned will be judged for their unbelief. We know they did not believe because their names were not written in The Lamb's Book of Life (Revelation 20:11-15). 

    They wait too, knowing there is no more time to choose Christ.

  1 Thessalonians 4:17-18

For The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet The Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with The Lord. 

    So I encourage you now to "Wait on The Lord, and be of good courage." For waiting is hard but possible. Some folks will meet Jesus by way of the grave, some will meet Him by way of the air. Some of us die horrific deaths, some of us die by way of disease, some die of old age. Yet we wait on The Lord through it all. And through it all The Lord strengthens us with Himself. And that is enough to get me through the waiting. 

THROUGH IT ALL - Andrae Crouch (with his testimony, too!)