90 Days and Waiting

After receiving all kinds of paperwork to fill out (via email) to be

prepared for our RA/LOA (Referral Acceptance/Letter of Acceptance)

this past friday I thought for sure RA/LOA would be in the batch

that came yesterday. So when it wasn't I was a little discouraged

and sad. I just kept asking,"The Lord why?" "Please help me to keep

trusting in your perfect timing."

This was today's devotional from Streams In The Dessert

And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious

unto you . . . blessed are all they that wait for Him

(Isaiah 30:18)

We must not only think of our waiting upon God, but also of what is

more wonderful still, of God's waiting upon us. The vision of Him

waiting on us will give new impulse and inspiration to our waiting

upon Him. It will give us unspeakable confidence that our waiting

cannot be in vain. Let us seek even now, at this moment, in the spirit

of waiting on God, to find out something of what it means. He has

inconceivably glorious purposes concerning every one of His

children. And you ask, "How is it, if He waits to be gracious, that

even after I come and wait upon Him, He does not give the help

I seek, but waits on longer and longer?"

God is a wise husbandman, "who waiteth for the precious fruit of

the earth, and hath long patience for it." He cannot gather the fruit

till it is ripe. He knows when we are spiritually ready to receive the

blessing to our profit and His glory. Waiting in the sunshine of

His love is what will ripen the soul for His blessing. Waiting under

the cloud of trial, that breaks in showers of blessings, is as needful.

Be assured that if God waits longer than you could wish, it is only

to make the blessing doubly precious. God waited four thousand

years, till the fullness of time, ere He sent His Son. Our times are

in His hands; He will avenge His elect speedily; He will make haste

for our help, and not delay one hour too long.

Andrew Murray

Wow! When I think of how hard headed and stubborn I can

be it sure makes me thankful that my Father in heaven is

so gracious and merciful and that He waits patiently for

me. I will praise Him in the waiting.