My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be moved. (Psalm 62:5-6)
Waiting on the Lord is one of the
hardest things for the flesh to embrace. One of the biggest obstacles to moving
into the new season, and moving into greater glory and harvest, is impatience.
Impatience caused Moses to be set on the backside of the desert for forty years
as the Lord dealt with his life and character. Impatience caused King Saul to
presumptively take matters into his own hands when it seemed Samuel was delayed
in his arrival to bless the troops before battle (1 Sam. 10), thus causing a
hardening of his heart in pride and ultimately losing the kingdom. Impatience
by the newly saved Saul of Tarsus caused unnecessary turmoil and problems for
the still infant church in Jerusalem, causing the senior leaders to send him
back home to Tarsus for the discipline of silence and solitude (Acts 9:27-31).
Part of the Lord’s refining process to prepare us to enter into the fullness of
His presence and purposes is learning to wait on the Lord. There’s nothing more
irritating and deadly to the fallen nature, but conversely reviving to the
Spirit of God within us, than waiting on God. Waiting on the Lord
is part of the sifting process where the precious (His presence within the
believer) is separated from the worthless (that which is under the dominion of
the world, the flesh and the enemy). This has always been a necessary stage in
the sanctification/training process in a believer’s life before moving forward
into the fullness of the Lord’s purposes.
