Those that wait

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. (Psalm 37:9)

The child of God must not conduct him/herself as the individual in the world does. We can’t just see something and decide that we are going to have it. Not all things edify. All of our needs will be supplied but not necessarily when we want or expect it. We cannot give in to every emotion. Even, when we are in trouble and distress, we might not get our deliverance right away just because we feel we need to be delivered right in that moment. The child of God is subject to the things of God. We must learn to wait on him, exercise submission to his will and he will manifest his blessings and deliver us in due season.

Frequently we may have to wait for temporal blessings. It may not be safe for us to obtain the desire of our heart, because our heart is as yet too much occupied with the world and the things thereof. We may have to wait for deliverance from trouble, for as yet the furnace may not have accomplished its refining work. You may be ill, and you may pray to God to make you well, but he may still allow his beloved to be sick; to you sickness may be healthier than health. You are very poor, and you would like to struggle out of abject penury. By all means struggle on; but do not murmur if you should not be successful; poverty may be a richer state for you than wealth. There may be something in your character which cannot be perfected except by suffering and labour; and it is better that your character be perfected than your substance increased. None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials. As the sycamore fig never ripens if it be not bruised, as the corn does not leave the husk without threshing, and as wheat makes no fine flour till it be ground, so are of little use till we are afflicted. Why should we be so eager to escape such benefits? We shall have to wait with patience, saying, “The will of the Lord be done.” He waited to give grace to us, let us wait to give glory to him. Charles Spurgeon 

​GiGi❤️

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