Song #8: “Wait” (Isaiah 40)
“They that wait…” is so appropriate for a lot of us these days; I’m waiting for my voice to come back so that I can resume recording and ministry. One of my close friends is waiting for his heart to “normalize,” and yet another friend is waiting to know whether or not he will be able to move forward with his plans. “Wait” is from my CD
Words of Faith and Hope: listen at: wesmichaelgorospe.com.
Lyrics:
“Have you not known, have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, Creator of the ends of the earth neither faints nor is weary.
They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
His understanding is unsearchable, He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might, He increases strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but to those who have no might, He increases strength…”
I have always thought about the word “wait” as me hanging around, hoping that someone would show up, but in my meditation on this verse, I began thinking a different thought…”they that WAIT on the Lord…” what if it meant waiting on the Lord as a server would wait on a table? The passage could then read, “they that watch diligently for a sign from the one on whom they are waiting, will find strength and inspiration as they concentrate on how they might respond to the Lord’s beckoning them to His side for the next instruction…” “Waiting” then becomes active rather than passive.
“To Wait” becomes an attitude of providing excellent service to The Master, rather than waiting with an impatient and entitlement mind set.
If we are servant “Waiters” we can rest in the assurance that we are living in this moment, and not one that we may be imagining might happen sometime. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have Hope for the future, I’m just saying that MAYBE in this moment your thinking on “WAITING” might benefit from a little tweeking, a little mindset shift…think about it.
Blessing you as I wait,
Wes