Patience- Part IV

In case you would like a little review or need to catch up, here you go...

Patience- Part I
Patience- Part II
Patience- Part III

I am still waiting, still being patient, so I am still learning. AND sometimes I like to blog about what I am learning. :)

I don't know what it is, but music has the ability to get to a part of me like nothing else. It hits something deep inside and evokes emotions that lay dormant most of the time. Music has the ability to break through all the walls in a few notes and/or words. There are songs that just make me want to get on my face...others where it impossible to keep my arms from lifting in the air. Songs where I feel God's heart being revealed...song where I fell my heart is being poured out to God.

The following is one of those song in which I feel like the writer knew my heart. What I have been longing to say, but could never quite find the correct words. The song that has been my heart's cry for the last several months...even thought I hadn't heard it until this morning on my way to work. John Waller, who wrote and sings this song, wrote "but the important thing to remember while we're waiting on God is to not just wait but to actively wait. Serve, worship and be faith with what you have, where you are...'even while (you) wait." I don't pretend to know everything, but I think that is some pretty good advice.

Now, one disclaimer before the video...In the first verse it says that waiting is painful. I guess I can see where he is coming from, but I am not sure that I completely agree. Waiting can be frustrating. Waiting can be difficult. You know...Now that I am thinking about it more, yeah, waiting can be painful. Maybe not the kind of pain that we think of first, but pain nonetheless.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this song.

Patience- Part III

Just in case you want to go back and refresh your memory or in case you are new to my blog, you can go back and read both parts 1 and 2.

Patience- Part I
Patience- Part II

As I finished up reading about perseverance, I came across Romans 8:24-25.

For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

It was the last phrase, "with perseverance we wait" that really stuck out to me. I began looking at patience which lead to studying out perseverance/forbearing. I realized that waiting was going to be next. Waiting is a part of patience. All of these go hand in hand. I shouldn't have been surprised. Several of the verses that I had studied back in Psalms that used the phrase "wait patiently" (Psalm 37:7 and Psalm 40:1-3).

Not only does the Bible say that we should wait patiently, but how to wait, what to wait for, as well as benefits of waiting:

• Our soul sometimes waits in silence (Psalm 62)
• Wait for God's word (Psalm 119:74, 81, 114, 147)
• Wait for the Lord (Psalm 130, Isaiah 40:31)
• Wait for His lovingkindness (Psalm 147:10-12)
• Wait eagerly (Isaiah 26:8-9)
• Wait with hope (Isaiah 49:23)
• Wait expectantly (Isaiah 51:5, Micah 7:7)
• The Lord is good to those who wait (Lamentations 3:24-26)
• Wait continually (Hosea 12:6)
• Wait for what the Father promised (Acts 1:3-5)
• Wait patiently (Hebrews 6:15)

Another verse that really hit home was Psalm 27:13-14.

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the LORD (NASB).

Now that is some good stuff.

I've also read a couple of different excerpts from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers, but I will have to share those at another time. I guess that means there will be a Part IV! :) Maybe I will eventually draw this to a conclusion, but until then I guess you will have to wait...