Waiting on God (1) - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

The LORD is near - Thursday, January 30, 2025
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

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Waiting on God (1)

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on 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.
Isaiah 40:30–31

Waiting on God (1)
The Lord Jesus knew well where to turn for help as He pressed forward in the path of faith. God was His confidence, as the will of God was His delight, and He ceased not to turn to Him. His own strength might be weakened in the way (Ps. 102:23), but He knew where to find the source of strength unfailing, and to that source He ever turned.

The redeemed soul has also learned to turn to God, and as he deepens in this, and knows what it is to truly wait on God, to be still and silent before Him, he finds the true secret and spring of strength and steadfastness in the way of the will of God. He can say truly, “I have heard this: that power belongs to God” (Ps. 62:11). This is a time when we need very definitely to wait on Him.

We pray; we have our regular seasons of prayer. This is necessary and right. But we also need to wait on God, especially at a moment like the present, with its personal and collective exercises. We need to take special time now to definitely wait on God.

Great and grave issues are ahead; and to be right with God at the present, and also to be right in the future, it is essential for each one to have to do with Himself in reality. One cannot take the place of another in this. Each for himself must in faith and exercise get to God—to the everlasting God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; our God and Father through grace. How good it is to know that He welcomes us to draw near to Him!

H. J. Vine

Oh, the pure delight of a single hour

That before Thy throne I spend,

When I kneel in prayer, and with Thee, my God,

I commune as friend with friend!

Fanny J. Crosby

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