Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage. – Psalm 27:14
Not many people like to wait – you wait in line at the grocery store, or you wait for the government to give you permission to open your business, or go back to work, or back to church again. It has been a hard time for all – for some more than others.
Today’s verse calls you to wait again, but this time it is for a purpose that will make your situation, your total being better. “Wait for the Lord!” As Charles Spurgeon says, “It is a song of cheerful hope well-fitted for those in trial who have learned to lean on the Almighty arm.” Spurgeon continues by giving a guide on how you should wait: “Wait at His door with prayer; wait at His feet with humility; wait at His table with service; wait at His window with expectancy.” Doing that will provide the courage you will need to labor with a strong and lively faith. When all strength has been spent, the Lord will bring new power and supplies of grace that can never be exhausted.
The one whose eye is heaven-directed will have a heart that grows in courage – courage to stand fast in their faith, courage to speak God’s message to ones who need to hear. A poem written in the 1600s says: “Devote yourself to God, and you will find God fights the battles of a will resigned.”
Pray now for the president and his cabinet members that they may be devoted to the Lord, seek His direction through prayer, and humbly serve this nation, leaning on the Almighty arm of God for courage to take the right steps to lead this nation.
Today’s Verse: Psalm 27:14
Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: Isaiah 40:6-8, 28-31
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
