Waiting only on god

“But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer” (Psalm 38:15)

We have our people that we contact when we need support, mother, father, siblings, best friend, pastor, etc. Yet, one gets to the point where you can’t talk about any longer. All one can do is wait only on God. He alone can fix it.

Quoting Charles Spurgeon:
​     It ought to be the daily habit of the believer to commune with his God; we ought to make him
​     our Confidant in all things. You will go amiss, depend upon it, if you do not wait upon the
     Lord for guidance. “Bring hither the ephod,” was David’s command to the priests when he
​     was in perplexity, and knew not what he ought to do. Israel made a great mistake with
     regard to the Gibeonites because the case seemed so simple to them that they did not need
     to consult the Lord concerning it. Here were men with dry and mouldy bread, and with old
     shoes and clouted upon their feet; they said they had come from a far country, and the
     matter appeared so plain that the Israelites asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord, but
     took of their victuals, and made a treaty with them, as they would not have done if they had
​     consulted the Lord. I do not think that God’s people often go astray in the most difficult
     cases, for they do take them to the Lord in prayer. It is in simple matters that we make our
     greatest blunders, because we think we know what to do, and therefore we do not wait
     upon the Lord for guidance. Yet he who leans to his own understanding is trusting to a
     broken reed which will be sure to fail him just when he most needs it. Thus, we know where
     our true help comes from. We know in whom we must place our trust. ”But for you, O LORD,
     do I wait.”

Oswald Chambers wrote, “At critical moments it is necessary to ask for guidance, but it ought to be unnecessary to say always — “O Lord, direct me here, and there.” Of course He will! If our commonsense decisions are not His order, He will press through them and check; then we must be quiet and wait for the direction of His presence.”

​GiGi❤️

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