" . . . Their strength is to sit still." Isaiah 30:7
Waiting on God is not stagnation, but the wisest and most productive of all occupations; for it is then that God charges our souls with a super-abundance of His grace to prepare us for greater service! God never places us in any position where we cannot grow in some way. When we are not sending branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. When everything seems to us to be characterized by the word "failure," we may be making the best and the most spiritual kind of progress! While we sit still and patiently wait on God, our souls are imbued with His strength and prepared for greater tasks ahead.
When the pursuing Egyptians trapped the helpless Israelites at the Red Sea, Moses said, "Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord" (Exodus 14:13). When the hosts of the Moabites and Ammonites closed in on Judah, King Jehoshaphat said to the people, Stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord" (2 Chronicles 20:17). Yes, there are times when waiting is more essential than working, and when trying must give place to trusting! If God has set you aside through sickness or trial, do not be rebellious; it is His way of imparting to you His strength for greater victories ahead.
Luther Burbank often startled the world by the apparent wonders he performed in the realm of fruits and vegetables. What people did not know was that it sometimes took twenty-five years of selection and cross-breeding to make a "spineless cactus" or a "seedless orange." In the light of this should we be surprised or impatient when God takes a little time to work on our immortal soul so that He may perform His wonders? Trustingly resign yourself to His will and "let patience has her perfect work" (James 1:4).
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