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!)

A Crucified Life - - Answers The Call To Wait & Keep

 

    Psalm 37:34

Wait on The LORD and Keep His Way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land: you will look on when the wicked are cut off.

    We know that to wait on The Lord is to come near when called and to serve Him in whatever capacity He has called us to serve. Whether we wash dishes, fix engines, build houses, mop floors, prepare lessons, drive trucks, scrub toilets, change diapers, fix leaky pipes, etc. Wherever we are, as long as our hearts are right with The Lord, we are in His service. 

    Many preachers have been called to not only serve in the pulpit but to build it, as well. The Lord builds His church and designates who does what. But sometimes the pastor does more than "just preach". He is the plumber, the electrician, the janitor, the spackler, the sweeper, the window washer. In each he waits on The Lord, he serves. 

    Many a parent multitasks throughout parenthood. This is a job that never ends. Here we wait on The Lord as parents, doing double duty: in the home we are parents; on the job we are the employer/employee. 

    No service is too mean when we are in The Lord's service. Colossians 3:17 "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."

    Keeping His Way is to guard, to protect, to hedge ourselves with His Word. It is to surround ourselves with The Word of God. We pray that He leads us, guides us, guards us (Psalm 23). We pray that He carries us through, and walks with us. We pray that God surrounds us with Himself, keeping our enemies at bay as we wait on His purpose to be accomplished within us and through us. 

    We surround ourselves with like-minded praying people in our lives that we may strengthen each other in The Lord. The hand washes the foot, the heart pumps the blood, the diaphragm gives voice to the mouth. This is the body of Christ in service to God. 

(1 Corinthians 12:12-26)

    If I step on a sharp object, the immediate acknowledgement of pain comes out of my mouth. The body knows when the foot is in pain. If I gaze longingly at that maple doughnut, the stomach knows the eyes have seen something good and the nose has smelled a fantastic aroma, immediately the mouth waters. The body knows what satisfies the stomach. 

    So, if we remain in His service, waiting on His commands and keeping them, we will receive our reward in due time. We are to wait and keep with joy and honor. We are people of integrity. We are people of praise. 

    We are the body of Christ: we will be broken and poured out when we humble ourselves to wait on God's timing and keep living our lives in obedience to His Word. 

CALLED TO WAIT

Wait On You - Elevation Worship & Maverick City 

Surrounded - UPPERROOM

Talking To Jesus - Elevation Worship & Maverick City

Build My Life - Pat Barrett

Jesus At The Center - TRIBL

I Will Serve The Lord - Carman

Walking Free - Micah Tyler & Matthew West

Promises - TRIBL