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WAITING ON GOD: Its Certainty of Blessing (Day 22)
by Andrew Murray

'Thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.' Isa. 49: 23. 'Blessed are all they that wait for Him.' Isa. 30: 18.

What promises! How God seeks to draw us to waiting on Him by the most positive assurance that it never can be in vain: 'They shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.' How strange that, though we should so often have experienced it, we are yet so slow of learning that this blessed waiting must and can be as the very breath of our life, a continuous resting in God's presence and His love, an unceasing yielding of ourselves for Him to perfect His work in us. Let us once again listen and meditate, until our heart says with new conviction: 'Blessed are they that wait for Him!' Our sixth day's lesson we found in the prayer of Psalm 25: `Let none that wait on Thee be ashamed.' The very prayer shows how we fear lest it might be. Let us listen to God's answer, until every fear is banished, and we send back to heaven the words God speaks, Yes, Lord, we believe what You say: 'All they that wait for Me shall not be ashamed.' `Blessed are all they that wait for Him.'

The context of each of these two passages points us to times when God's Church was in great straits, and to human eye there was no possibility of deliverance. But God interposes with His word of promise, and pledges His Almighty Power for the deliverance of His people. And it is as the God who has Himself undertaken the work of their redemption, that He invites them to wait on Him, and assures them that disappointment is impossible. We, too, are living in days in which there is much in the state of the Church, with its profession and its formalism, that is indescribably sad. Amid all we praise God for, there is, alas, much to mourn over! Were it not for God's promises we might well despair. But in His promises the Living God has given and bound Himself to us. He calls us to wait on Him. He assures us we shall not be put to shame. Oh that our hearts might learn to wait before Him, until He Himself reveals to us what His promises mean, and in the promises reveals Himself in His hidden glory! We shall be irresistibly drawn to wait on Him alone. God increase the company of those who say, `Our soul waits for the Lord: He is our Help and our Shield.'

This waiting upon God on behalf of His Church and people will depend greatly upon the place that waiting on Him has taken in our personal life. The mind may often have beautiful visions of what God has promised to do, and the lips may speak of them in stirring words, but these are not really the measure of our faith or power. No; it is what we really know of God in our personal experience, conquering the enemies within, reigning and ruling, revealing Himself in His Holiness and Power in our inmost being, -- it is this will be the real measure of the spiritual blessing we expect from Him, and bring to our fellow men. It is as we know how blessed the waiting on God has become to our own souls, that we shall confidently hope in the blessing to come on the Church around us, and the key-word of all our expectations will be; He has said: `All they that wait on Me shall not be ashamed.' From what He has done in us, we shall trust Him to do mighty things around us.

`Blessed are all they that wait for Him.' Yes, blessed even now in the waiting. The promised blessings, for ourselves, or for others, may tarry; the unutterable blessedness of knowing and having Him who has promised, the Divine Blesser, the Living Fountain of the coming blessings, is even now ours. Do let this truth get full possession of your souls, that waiting on God is itself the highest privilege of the creature, the highest blessedness of His redeemed child.

Even as the sunshine enters with its light and warmth, with its beauty and blessing, into every little blade of grass that rises upward out of the cold earth, so the Everlasting God meets, in the greatness and the tenderness of His love, each waiting child, to shine in his heart `the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.' Read these words again, until your heart learns to know what God waits to do to you. Who can measure the difference between the great sun and that little blade of grass? And yet the grass has all of the sun it can need or hold. Do believe that in waiting on God, His greatness and your littleness suit and meet each other most wonderfully. Just how in emptiness and poverty and utter impotence, in humility and meekness and surrender to His will, before His great glory, and be still. As you wait on Him, God draws near. He will reveal Himself as the God who will fulfill mightily His every promise. And let your heart ever again take up the song: `Blessed are all they that wait for Him.'

'My soul, wait thou only upon God!'

These past couple of months have been especially filled with waiting upon God and finding Him so faithful to send us blessings pressed down and running over. In our daily fellowship, the cards in the mail, and brief visits have been such a blessing. Even though we see the obvious changes in my health, we long to fill each moment with joy and to savor the joy God gives us each day.

As we battle the fatigue and pain and nausea, it is very real, but God's grace has been sufficient. I'm thankful for all of the help there is available.

As the days go by, I may be less able to keep up with the blog or written correspondence, but please know how much they matter. I pray you will continue to stand by us in the weeks to come.

I would come to you this day for a little girl who was accidentally injured in a driveway car incident. She's either 3 or 4 years old. There are many whom we love who are battling with finances, serious health, or marriage issues. It is wondrous to know how our little prayers matter. The smallest hug or the sweetest, shortest note can make such a tremendous difference as they remind us to look up into our Father's eyes from whence our Help comes.

We love you all, dear friends, and we continue to give God thanks for you daily in our prayers.

With love and full hearts,
Colleen and the Moeller Family

(This is Amber: I'll try to post some pictures soon from the last few weeks for your enjoyment.)