Have you had your JOY JUICE today? Drink it in now, but just wait and see… the
best is yet to come!
Are you a
good “waiter”? I’m not talking about the
kind of waiter who serves food at a restaurant. I’m
referring to the kind of waiter who “tarries” while looking for something in
particular to happen. One definition of
“wait” is: “to remain or rest in expectation”.
I think that’s a good definition of what we are to do when we are
waiting on the Lord to answer our prayers.
Do we “remain and rest in expectation” of what He’s going to do in our
lives?
Psalm 33:
20 – 22 says it beautifully: “Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we trust
in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be
upon us, even as we hope in you.”
Though it is
very hard to wait at times…especially for something we’ve prayed about for a
long time…we can still have a “glad heart” because of God’s promise of faithfulness
and His steadfast love. That should
always give us hope…..HOPE not in ourselves and what we can do, but HOPE in HIM
who is the giver of all good things.
If you are
in a time of “waiting”, find the JOY of the LORD to be your strength. Indeed, we can trust that He has great plans
for us…..”plans to give us hope and a future”….just as the scripture in
Jeremiah (29:11)says!
Let’s
“remain and rest in expectation” of the abundant JOY that is planned for each
of us!
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