Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. — Psalm 27:14
I will be the first one to admit it. I am not the perfect picture of patience, especially when it is something that comes around to affect my life. I may have patience when it is something going on in someone else’s life, but when it directly affects my life or my family, I want to get the situation resolved now.
That has been the case on many occasions. While I have waited on blood work results for myself, for my family, or for close friends. I certainly did not display the best patience when my son was facing his surgery and the hospital wanted to delay the surgery the morning of. Waiting is hard, especially when you face a crisis.
On many occasions, I remember facing a circumstance where I really wanted to resolve it immediately. Some of those presented as a financial crisis. Others may have been a health crisis. I’ve even had the experience of a job crisis where I was unsure of what was going to happen for me and my family in the coming days. I was in a situation and I needed an answer, but it did not seem that God was in the same crisis mode that I was.
David wrote in Psalm 27 to wait upon the Lord and that God would strengthen our heart. While those words are great, David goes on to say, “wait, I say, on the LORD.” He is telling us that amid all the events of life, he has learned that you must wait on God. It’s so important that he repeats it twice in this one verse.
To wait upon God shows our trust and reliance upon Him. We could certainly try to do things on our own, but think about how much better they turn out when God handles the situation! Other methods to end your crisis may exist, but waiting on God to intervene will not only take care of the crisis, but bring you through it into a much better place in the end.