I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. And He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; many will see and fear, and will trust in the LORD. How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, and has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
The most difficult thing in the world, for most of us, is to wait patiently for the LORD. But God is more eastern in his way of thinking and working than He is western. Relationships, not time, are the main factor. Whereas, westerners are into production and product, God, like most of the eastern world, is into people. And, with people, life is formed in the process. Therefore, what seems like the slowness of God to move on our behalf, is actually the goodness of God to mold us along the way. Until we come to this kind of faith, we will forever chaffe against the ways of God with us. The Christian life cannot be appreciated by looking ahead; all that creates is fretting, worry and anxiety. It is only when we wait patiently for the LORD, that we will, over time, look back and see His hand in our lives. Certainly, He has a great future planned for His children, but the future is secured in the present and seen in the past. It is as we have patiently waited on the LORD that we can then look back over our lives and see how He has orchestrated our lives. It is then that we know He was not indifferent to our needs. We can see where He protected us from disaster and established our ways. This is the testimony of those who "wait patiently for the LORD". This is what forms our songs and quickens our witness. Frankly, much of the "Christian" music of our day is drowning in shallowness. Many are singing songs rooted in self rather than the knowledge of the Holy; songs that aren't born in "waiting patiently for the LORD", where one has truly made the LORD his trust, but, rather, songs that are born out the emptiness of pride and falsehood. We must do better than this, if we are to again affect this world with eternal truth.
The most difficult thing in the world, for most of us, is to wait patiently for the LORD. But God is more eastern in his way of thinking and working than He is western. Relationships, not time, are the main factor. Whereas, westerners are into production and product, God, like most of the eastern world, is into people. And, with people, life is formed in the process. Therefore, what seems like the slowness of God to move on our behalf, is actually the goodness of God to mold us along the way. Until we come to this kind of faith, we will forever chaffe against the ways of God with us. The Christian life cannot be appreciated by looking ahead; all that creates is fretting, worry and anxiety. It is only when we wait patiently for the LORD, that we will, over time, look back and see His hand in our lives. Certainly, He has a great future planned for His children, but the future is secured in the present and seen in the past. It is as we have patiently waited on the LORD that we can then look back over our lives and see how He has orchestrated our lives. It is then that we know He was not indifferent to our needs. We can see where He protected us from disaster and established our ways. This is the testimony of those who "wait patiently for the LORD". This is what forms our songs and quickens our witness. Frankly, much of the "Christian" music of our day is drowning in shallowness. Many are singing songs rooted in self rather than the knowledge of the Holy; songs that aren't born in "waiting patiently for the LORD", where one has truly made the LORD his trust, but, rather, songs that are born out the emptiness of pride and falsehood. We must do better than this, if we are to again affect this world with eternal truth.
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