Those who wait on the
Lord…shall walk and not faint. —Isaiah 40:31
“When we are in an unhealthy
condition either physically or emotionally, we always look for thrills in life.
In our physical life this leads to our efforts to counterfeit the work of the
Holy Spirit; in our emotional life it leads to obsessions and to the destruction
of our morality; and in our spiritual life, if we insist on pursuing only
thrills, on mounting up “with wings like eagles” (Isaiah 40:31), it will result in the destruction of our
spirituality. […] Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our
being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our
determination to keep the Lord before us continually. Our problems arise when
we refuse to place our trust in the reality of His presence.” CHAMBERS
When Jesus gave instruction
to His disciples before He ascended into heaven after His resurrection, (Acts 1:4-5) “Do not leave Jerusalem,
but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For
John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy
Spirit.” The disciples had been with
Jesus in His absence, but in His absence God was going to send the Spirit. They should not attempt to do anything until
they had the Spirit to help. (John 14:26) “But the Helper, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and
bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” The success of this new life that we live is
totally dependent upon the Spirit of God.
Like electricity in a light bulb, the Spirit enables us to live and do
as God has purposed. (John 15:5) “I am the vine; you are the
branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart
from me you can do nothing.”
The
disciples had been trained for three years.
They knew a lot but were incapable of doing anything, spiritually
speaking, on their own. And so it is
with us. We must “switch” the Holy
Spirit on in our lives. Let His light shine in us. We must wait on, yield to,
the Lord through the Spirit and then we can walk and not faint. We can live and do in the manner that God has
purposed. We do not get to make the rules
for our new lives, God, the creator, has already done that. The mess we call the natural life happened because
the creation thought it knew better than the Creator. There were two buzzards sitting on a
limb. They were waiting for something to
die. And they waited. Finally one said, “I am tired of waiting, I
am going to go kill something!” When we
try to do it on our own, it never ends well.
And we then add the complication of trying to fix what we caused to
happen because we did not want to wait on God.
I see the pain that people endure from the consequences of their unwillingness
to wait, every day. Wait. CHARLEY
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