Simpler Times

Simpler Times

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Blessings

I was reading blogs one day and ran across this blog, Living from Glory to Glory, and I just fell in love with the spirit of this woman.  After reading her blog and her bio I found that she lives in Colorado!  I emailed her and we shared a couple emails back and forth.  She introduced me to a few devotionals she follows online.  I have benefited from that more than anything in many years.  It has renewed my faith in God.  I can only say that finding her was providential.  Many times in my life I have had to wait, and it is one of the hardest things for me to do.  Sounds silly, but I am not the most patient person, never have been.  I remember being a child and being very impatient.  But enough of that.  This morning's devotional was spot on for me.  Here it is.  I hope it speaks to one other person.




August 30th — Morning Reading

"Wait on the Lord." — Psalm 27:14
It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."
I do not have permission to repost this, hope I am not in trouble.
Now for a scene that looks peaceful for the waiting...





So. for me when the animals are at peace, sleeping, it makes me feel peaceful.
Enjoy!



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