Isaiah 64:4 KJV
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Waiting is such a challenging thing. I doubt that any have ever really fully done it. Someone, they say, challenged D.L. Moody once by saying "The world has yet to see what God can do through one man fully surrendered to Him." Similarly the world has yet to see what God will do in a people who truly wait for Him.
Every one presses us to do. And we do not escape it in the Christian faith, we may have more pressure here than in other areas because here they place upon us the onus of God's displeasure with our waiting. I understand that Paul labored more abundantly. But I think it might be a matter of in which areas of the faith we labor.
I want to see what God will do.
I am sure it is bigger than my mind can contrive. I have seen enough of what men do;
• Striving with one another
• Justifying all sorts of worldliness for what they believe is the cause of the Lord
• Bickering with one another
• Stealing members from each other's flocks and
• Refusing to train people in ethical and Christian behavior because letting them remain as they are helps the cause of their own church (even if it does not help the cause of Christ.)
We are James' epistle fleshed out.
James 4:1-3 KJV
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
I want to see what God will do for those who wait upon Him.
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Waiting is such a challenging thing. I doubt that any have ever really fully done it. Someone, they say, challenged D.L. Moody once by saying "The world has yet to see what God can do through one man fully surrendered to Him." Similarly the world has yet to see what God will do in a people who truly wait for Him.
Every one presses us to do. And we do not escape it in the Christian faith, we may have more pressure here than in other areas because here they place upon us the onus of God's displeasure with our waiting. I understand that Paul labored more abundantly. But I think it might be a matter of in which areas of the faith we labor.
I want to see what God will do.
I am sure it is bigger than my mind can contrive. I have seen enough of what men do;
• Striving with one another
• Justifying all sorts of worldliness for what they believe is the cause of the Lord
• Bickering with one another
• Stealing members from each other's flocks and
• Refusing to train people in ethical and Christian behavior because letting them remain as they are helps the cause of their own church (even if it does not help the cause of Christ.)
We are James' epistle fleshed out.
James 4:1-3 KJV
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
I want to see what God will do for those who wait upon Him.
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