WAITING QUIETLY BEFORE THE LORD

There is a holy stillness in which the soul learns its truest posture before God. God works most deeply where the heart is most surrendered, and that surrender is learned in waiting. The Word of God calls us not merely to believe, but to abide—to remain before the Lord with an open, yielded spirit, trusting that He is at work even when we feel no movement at all (Psalm 62:1).

Waiting before God is not passivity; it is dependence. It is the confession of the heart that says, I cannot move without You, and I will not pretend that I can. Our sufficiency is from God, not from ourselves (2 Corinthians 3:5). In waiting, the believer steps out of self-effort and into divine strength. The flesh grows restless in silence, but the Spirit grows strong there.

The great hindrance to a deep life with God is not sin alone, but self. We hurry where God would have us linger. We plan where He would have us listen. Yet Christ Himself lived in perfect dependence upon the Father, saying that He could do nothing of Himself, but only what He saw the Father doing (John 5:19). If the Son of God walked in such submission, how much more must we learn the grace of quiet trust?

Waiting trains the heart to recognize God’s voice. In stillness, pride softens, anxiety loosens its grip, and the soul becomes attentive to the gentle leading of the Spirit. Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength—not exchange weakness for strength, but receive strength where weakness once ruled (Isaiah 40:31). God does not merely help the waiting soul; He fills it.

Let us then learn to wait—not for answers only, but for God Himself. The deepest blessing is not clarity of circumstance, but closeness of communion. When the heart is content to rest before the Lord, trusting His timing and His wisdom, Christ becomes not merely our Savior, but our present life. In that quiet place, faith matures, love deepens, and the soul learns that God alone is enough.

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Lord God, teach us to wait quietly before You. Deliver us from restless striving and self-reliance, and draw us into deeper dependence upon Your Spirit. Form Christ within us as we abide in Your presence. Through Jesus our Lord, Amen.

BDD