Psalm 40:1-3.
Good morning, waiting
Christian! Perhaps you, like your
unworthy author, too often exercise the blight of impatience? We are exhorted to ‘…wait patiently for the Lord…’, yet, like impulsive Peter, we tire too easily of our
waiting, and seek to hurry the hand of our Omnipotent Lord God. Sigh…
Time and time again we are
taught the lesson from Scripture we least like hearing - the lesson that we
must ‘…wait patiently for the Lord…’ - His will, and His timing are always just PERFECT.
“Wait on the Lord; be of
good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the
Lord.” (Psalm 27:14)
In the verse quoted above,
from Psalm 27, we find what many Bible Teachers call ‘the law of the double-mention’: If God the
Holy Ghost, the Divine Author of all canonical Scriptures, sees fit to repeat
an exhortation, or a command, twice in close Scriptural succession - then we do
well to heed the law of this ‘…double mention…’ God the Spirit
is emphasizing His will for us. ‘Wait!’
“…Blessed (blessed
with many blessings) are they that hear the Word of God and keep it.” (Luke 11:28)
All too often we Christians
rush headlong into ventures without first taking those ventures to the Lord in
prayer, and seeking His Divine will in the matter. We are proven to be all too often impulsive
and lacking in patience. Therefore, we
can run ahead of the Lord’s will, and soon
our efforts come to nought.
If God wills the work, the
work is always successfully achieved - His timing is always perfect for
us. Wait with patience on Him.
After Christ was verbally
informed of the illness of Lazarus, ‘…He abode two days
still in the same place where He was.’ (V.6) Why did He do this?
To gain correct answers from
Holy Scriptures, we must ask ourselves many questions as we read God’s Word. The
Holy Spirit will give us the answers.
In the context of our Bible
passage today, we learn that Christ reacted to the verbal message from Mary and
Martha by informing all who heard, ‘…This sickness is
not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be
glorified thereby.’ (V.4)
And later in the story, He
certainly was.
Jesus, being God the Son, and
knowing all things, did not need to receive verbal communication reference the
illness of Lazarus - God knows everything about everybody! Our Lord God is an Omniscient Lord God.
“But the very hairs
of your head are all numbered. Fear not
therefore…” (Matthew 10:30-31)
The Lord Jesus was able to
tell His disciples that Lazarus was not merely ‘…sick…’, but that, in fact, ‘…Lazarus is dead.’ (V.14)
What God says in His Word -
God always does! God’s will is perfect.
Death hold no trepidation for
the Living Lord Jesus and His redeemed people.
Christ has conquered death for us and took its ‘…sting…’; the sting of our
sin, away. He took all our sins upon
Himself on that Cross and, as our Divine Substitute, paid the infinite penalty and bore them all
away forever. Hallelujah! What a Saviour we have in the Lord Jesus
Christ! Glory…
“For He (God the
Father) hath made Him (God the Son) to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we
(the redeemed) might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians
5:21)
“O death, where is
thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the Law (Ten Commandments). But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57) Praise God for such a final Victory!
In God’s Eternal and Divine will and timing: He sent His only
begotten Son, Christ Jesus to us; and made the way to Heaven open for us, for
all Eternity.
Thought: If you are going through some terrible time
of testing and suffering today, my friend - trust Jesus. He loves you, and His will for you is your
Eternal good. The Lord God bless you
abundantly.
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