Thank you
for your prayers for my husband. He is slowly recuperating from his stroke.
This morning he said he noticed his brain isn’t as foggy as it used to be. He
is walking and doing hand and arm exercises. His blood pressure is normal and
his head doesn’t hurt as much when on the computer or watching TV.
It has been
hard for him to wait patiently for healing. It is hard for all of us to wait on
good things to come. Feeling impatient is just the way human beings are.
I recently
bought a book called, “Waiting on God,” by Andrew Murray. I bought it because I
was finding it hard waiting for Jesus to return. I long for the sin and pain of
this world to be over and to see him face to face. The book has been a great
help to me and I highly recommend it. I thought I would share part of it with
you.
From Waiting
on God: “Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
entire.” James 1:4
“Such words
of the Holy Spirit show us what an important element in the Christian life and
character patience is. And nowhere is there a better place for cultivating or
displaying it than in waiting on God. There we discover how impatient we are,
and what our impatience means.
We confess
at times that we are impatient with men, and circumstances that hinder us, or
with ourselves and our slow progress in the Christian life. If we truly set
ourselves to wait upon God, we shall find that it is with Him we are impatient,
because he does not at once, or as soon as we could wish, do our bidding. It is
in waiting upon God that our eyes are opened to believe in his wise and
sovereign will, and to see that the sooner and more completely we yield
absolutely to it, the more surely his blessing can come to us.
“It is not
of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.” Romans
9:16
We have as
little power to increase or strengthen our spiritual life, as we had to
originate it. We ‘were born not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of the will of God.’ Even so, our willing and running, our desire and
effort, avail nothing; all is ‘of God that shows mercy.’
All the
exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and praying, our willing and
doing, have their very great value. But they can go no farther than this, that
they point the way and prepare us in humility to look to and to depend alone
upon God Himself, and in patience to wait his good time and mercy.
The waiting
is to teach us our absolute dependence upon God’s mighty working, and to make
us in perfect patience place ourselves at his disposal. They that wait on the
Lord shall inherit the land; the promised land and its blessing. The heirs must
wait; they can afford to wait…”
“Give God
his glory by resting in him, by trusting him fully, by waiting patiently for him.
This patience honors him greatly; it leaves him as God on the throne, to do his
work; it yields self wholly into his hands. It lets God be God.
From the
book, “Waiting on God,” - Day 11: Waiting
on God: Patiently
