Waiting on the Lord

I woke up this morning with the words " Be Still and Wait upon the Lord" ringing in my mind.

I have been lamenting a lot, reading a lot, praying a lot, crying a lot for a while now and the words kept resonating in my head. Be still and wait, be still and wait.... God is faithful.

I then typed the words "Waiting on the Lord" into my trusty Google search engine and came across this webpage from Bible.Org that totally resonated with me.

http://bible.org/article/waiting-lord


So many thoughts and realisations came upon me that I find it difficult to put them into words. All I can actually pen down is that this is a test for me and that I should just continue to have faith and be patient, even though it is very very hard. Waiting is actually a very difficult time.

Anyway, the passage that resonated the most with me in the webpage is this;

Deuteronomy 8:1-11
All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.

2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

3 And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

4 Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

5 Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

6 Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

9 a land where you shall eat food without scarcity, in which you shall not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

11 Beware lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today;


And now Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in Thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the reproach of the foolish.