Waiting Works

If there is anything we as a global community has had to learn how to do in 2020 it is to wait. We have waited and waited, and are still waiting. Waiting for things to get back to normal. Waiting to go out with the crew. Waiting for girls night out. Waiting for sports to happen. I’m waiting to go back to the movies. I can’t wait to get me a big drink, with a big popcorn, with some big licorice and watch a big movie. I’m waiting for my season. We are waiting to see if loved ones will survive. We have all had to wait. But waiting is not new to most of us. We’ve been waiting for equality for a long time. We’be been waiting for...

But while we are waiting for this to pass, and waiting for justice, waiting for this or that. Let us not simply wait on the change, especially a change by human efforts, when we should be waiting on God. Because if you wait on man to change your situation you will be waiting for a long time, and then be disappointed by the results. Also, when you wait for change without waiting for God it will cause you to worry about what you’re waiting on. (Preach)

Sarah and Abraham had to wait until the were old to have children

Joseph had to wait in the pit, it Potaphar’s house, and prison, before God raised him up.

Moses waited 40 years before God sent him back to Egypt

Israel waited 40 years in the desert

David knows what it means to wait.

Rescue

The psalm opens with a strong emphasis on waiting. In our translations its’ difficult to put our finger on it. David uses the same word twice. Waiting, I waited. David is singing about that type of waiting that puts you in a place where you can’t do anything else but be still. This is not Tag Agency waiting, this is not stuck in traffic waiting, this is stagnation is life where nothing is happening and its trying you very existance and God is your only resource for change.

But the God news is, God will “incline”. It means that God bends down to listen. He gives you his attention.

What David says is that God gets him out a place of destruction and waste, and a place that David cannot by himself get out of. Hence Rescue. It is not important how David got there, because at this point it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that God is able to get him out then hook him up. And church when you find yourself in dire situations don’t spend time concerning yourself on how you got there, the past is the past. Instead turn your attention to the one who can get you out a cry out to God.

And all this that God does for us should not be kept secrete. Dave says he put a new song in my mouth. So, hes not longer singing a song of hopelessness but a song of testimony on what God has done. In Psalm 38-39 his songs are about what he waiting on God for, Psalm 40 is what has happened as a result.

Finally, your rescue is not just for you. Or at the very least you shouldn’t be the only one who benefits from it. Someone should see it and turn and put their trust in God to do the same thing for them.

Reflection

Blessed, Happy, is the person who trust is the LORD. See the contrast the text offers. Happy is the man, who trust in the LORD, as apposed to some turning to the proud and going after lies.

Trusting God or Pride, Lie or the LORD

Multiplied your wondrous deeds…He has already done enough. Blessings on blessings on blessings. The old saints would say, “he keeps on making a way”.

“Thoughts” plans.

None can compare.

Proclaim and tell of the works. There are too many!