Waiting on God

Chapter 1

Day 1: The God of Our Salvation

'My soul waiteth only upon God [marg: is silent unto God]; from Him cometh my salvation.'--Ps. 62: 1(R.V.). IF salvation indeed comes from God, and is entirely His work, just as our creation was, it follows, as a matter

Chapter 2

Day 2: The Keynote of Life

'I have waited for Thy salvation, O Lord!'--Gen. 49: 18. IT is not easy to say exactly in what sense Jacob used these words, in the midst of his prophecies in regard to the future of his sons. But they do certainly indi

Chapter 3

Day 3: The True Place of the Creature

'These wait all upon Thee; That Thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That Thou givest unto them, they gather; Thou openest Thine hand, they are satisfied with good. Ps. 104:27, 28(R.V.). THIS Psalm, in pr

Chapter 4

Day 4: For Supplies

'The Lord upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that be bowed down. The eyes of all wait upon Thee; And Thou givest them their meat in due season.' --Ps. 145:14, 15. PSALM 104 is a Psalm of Creation, and

Chapter 5

Day 5: For Instruction

'Shew me thy ways, O Lord; Teach me Thy paths. Teach me Thy paths. Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me; For Thou art the God of my salvation; On Thee do I wait all the day.'-- Ps. 25:4, 5. 'I SPOKE of an army, on the

Chapter 6

Day 6: For All Saints

'Let none that wait on Thee be ashamed.'-- Ps. 25:3 LET us now, in our meditation of today, each one forget himself, to think of the great company of God's saints throughout the world, who are all with us waiting on Him

Chapter 7

Day 7: A Plea in Prayer

'Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on Thee.'-- Ps. 25:21 FOR the third time in this psalm we have the word wait. As before in ver. 5, On Thee do I wait all the day,' so here, too, the believing suppl

Chapter 8

Day 8: Strong and of Good Courage

'Wait on the Lord: be strong, And let your heart take courage: Yea, wait thou on the Lord.'-- Ps. 27:14 (R.V.) THE psalmist had just said, 'I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the l

Chapter 9

Day 9: With the Heart

'Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All ye that wait for the Lord.'-- Ps. 31: 24. (R.V.) THE words are nearly the same as in our last meditation. But I gladly avail myself of them again to press home a much-ne

Chapter 10

Day 10: Waiting for God:

In Humble Fear and Hope. 'Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him, Upon them that hope in His mercy; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. Our soul hath waited for the Lo

Chapter 11

Day 11: Patiently

'Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the land.'--Ps. 37: 7,9(R.V.). 'IN patience possess your souls.' 'Ye have need of patience.' 'Let patience have its perfe

Chapter 12

Day 12: Keeping His Ways

'Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, And He shalt exalt thee to inherit the land.'--Ps. 37: 34. IF we desire to find a man whom we long to meet, we inquire where the places and the ways are where he is to be found. Whe

Chapter 13

Day 13: For More Than We Know

'And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in Thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions.'--Ps. 39:7, 8. THERE may be times when we feel as if we knew not what we are waiting for. There may be other times when we thin

Chapter 14

Day 14: The Way to the New Song

'I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.... And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.'--Ps. 40: 1-3. COME and listen to the testimony of one who can speak from

Chapter 15

Day 15: For His Counsel

'They soon forgot His works: they waited not for His counsel.'--Ps. 106: 13. THIS is said of the sin of God's people in the wilderness. He had wonderfully redeemed them, and was prepared as wonderfully to supply their e

Chapter 16

Day 16: For His Light in the Heart

'I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, And in His word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: More than they that watch for the morning.'-- Ps. 130:5, 6. WITH what inten

Chapter 17

Day 17: In Times of Darkness

'I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for Him.'--Isa. 8: 17. HERE we have a servant of God, waiting upon Him, not on behalf of himself, but of his people, from whom Go

Chapter 18

Day 18: To Reveal Himself

'And it shall be said in that day,Lo, this is our God;we have waited for Him, and He will save us: THIS IS THE LORD; we have waited for Him, we will rejoice and be glad in His salvation,'--Isa. 25:9. IN this passage we

Chapter 19

Day 19: As a God of Judgment

'Yea, in the way of Thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for Thee:... for when Thy judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.'--Isa. 26:8,9. 'The Lord is a God of judgment: blessed ar

Chapter 20

Day 20: Who Waits on Us

'And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you; and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him.'--Isa. 30

Chapter 21

Day 21: The Almighty One

'They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with eagle wings; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.'--Isa. 40: 31. WAITING always partakes of the character of ou

Chapter 22

Day 22: It Certainty of Blessing

'Thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.' --Isa. 49:23. 'Blessed are all they that wait for Him.' --Isa. 30:18. WHAT promises! How God seeks to draw us to waiting on Him by t

Chapter 23

Day 23: For Unlooked-for Things

'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.'--Isa. 64:4. THE R.V. has: 'Neither

Chapter 24

Day 24: To Know His Goodness

'The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him.' -- Lam. 3:25 'THERE is none good but God.' 'His goodness is in the heavens.' 'Oh how great is Thy goodness, which Thou hast laid up for them that fear Thee ' 'Oh, taste an

Chapter 25

Day 25: Waiting on the Lord:

Quietly. 'It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.'--Lam. 3: 26 'TAKE heed, and be quiet: fear not, neither be faint-hearted.' 'In quietness and in confidence shall be your

Chapter 26

Day 26: In Holy Expectancy

'Therefore will I look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.'--Micah 7: 7. HAVE you ever read a beautiful little book, Expectation Corner? If not, get it; you will find in it one of

Chapter 27

Day 27: For Redemption

'Simeon was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him. Anna, a prophetess,... spake of Him to all then that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.'--Luke 2: 25, 38. HERE we hav

Chapter 28

Day 28: For the Coming of His Son

'Be ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.'--Luke 12:36. 'Until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, in His own time, He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and

Chapter 29

Day 29: For the Promise of the Father

'He charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father.'--Acts 1:4. IN speaking of the saints in Jerusalem at Christ's birth, with Simeon and Anna, we saw how, though the redemption the

Chapter 30

Day 30: Continually

'Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.'--Hos. 12:6. CONTINUITY is one of the essential elements of life. Interrupt it for a single hour in a man, and it is lost, he is

Chapter 31

Day 31: Only

'My soul, wait thou only upon God; For my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation.'--Isa. 62:5,6. It is possible to be waiting continually on God, but not only upon Him; there may be other secret