Becoming Christlike Through Waiting

“Let none that wait on Thee be ashamed.” (Psalm 25:3)

Humans are an anxious people by nature and when we become Christians not all things immediately drop away. We always carry over from the old life some of the habits we had formed. These are the things God strips away through the Sanctification* process that is at work in all believers. In the old life we learned that if you wanted anything you worked hard and went after it. But in the “New Creation” life things are quite different (2 Cor. 5:17). When it comes to Spiritual matters, we are not the captains of our destinies. The things we often need, in our own power, are often out of reach, so God bids us to seek Him. That’s not a problem except when we find ourselves needing to wait. That’s when our impatience kicks in and we can get frustrated.

But the Scripture is quite clear concerning the walk of the faithful, we are not our own work, we are His (Christ’s) Heb. 13:20-21; Phil. 1:6. So when we seek an answer or a solution to an issue or guidance for a difficult problem we must learn to wait on Him. In doing so we will receive from Him exactly what we need and draw closer to God at the same time.

Andrew Murray wrote,

Let us now, in our meditation of today, each one forget himself, to think of the great company of God, saints throughout the world, who are all with us waiting on Him. And let us all join in the fervent prayer for each other, “Let none that wait on Thee be ashamed.”

Just think for a moment of the multitude of waiting ones who need that prayer; how many there are, sick and weary and solitary, to whom it is as if their prayers are not answered, and who sometimes begin to fear that their hope will be put to shame. And then, how many servants of God, ministers or missionaries, teachers or workers, of various name, whose hopes in their work have been disappointed, and whose longing for power and blessing remains unsatisfied. And then, too, how many, who have heard of a life of rest and perfect peace, of abiding light and fellowship, of strength and victory, and who cannot find the path. With all these, it is nothing but that they have not yet learned the secret of full waiting upon God. They just need, what we all need, the living assurance that Waiting on God can never be in vain. Let us remember all who are in danger of fainting or being weary, and all unite in the cry, “Let none that wait on Thee be ashamed!”
-Andrew Murray

God Bless
Bro. Mike

*Sanctification: The process whereby God strips the world and worldly thinking out of your heart and transforms your character to be more like Christ. It starts at Salvation, continues throughout your life, and is completed at Christ’s return.

We have been sanctified (1 Cor. 6:11)
We are being sanctified (Heb. 2:11; 10:14)
One day we will be completely sanctified (1 Thess. 5:23)

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