God is Waiting on You

‘And therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you’ (Isaiah 30:18).

In Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible he writes this about Isaiah 30:18 ‘He will wait till you return to Him and seek His face, and then He will be ready to meet you with mercy. He will wait, that He may do it in the best and fittest time, when it will be most for His glory, when it will come to you with the most pleasing surprise. He will continually follow you with his favors, and not let slip any opportunity of being gracious to you."

As co-workers with God, He has placed in our hands the power to pull down into manifestation on earth His purposes in heaven. God made man in His image by giving him His spirit. However, before God breathed His spirit into man He used the dust of the earth to give man a body to be able to live on earth. God’s purpose was that, with His spirit and a body made for the earth, man will rule on earth; bringing  into fruition on it, God’s plans and purposes in Heaven (Gen 1:26,27).

Many are the plans of God for your life, but none of them can be realized if you depend on your strength alone, without total dependence on God. On the other hand, it is wrong to neglect your responsibility of Work with the excuse of waiting on God. After God gave man all He needed to rule on earth, His Command was, ‘work the land and take care of it’. Man was given a command to work, before his fall. Thus, work was God’s purpose for man even before he sinned (Gen 2:15). Spirituality is no excuse for laziness. The focus of this study is that God is waiting and counting on you to bring into fruition His purposes and plans for your life.

The sad reality is that, instead of doing our best and waiting on God to take care of the rest, a lot of people are living in one of the two extremes. Some have put their confidence in themselves and men, taking God out of the equation. An example is when God declared to Israel in Isaiah 30:2-3, ‘you trust Egypt for protection. So you refuse my advice and send messengers to Egypt to beg their king for help. You will be disappointed, completely disgraced for trusting Egypt’. The second extreme is when one claims to be waiting on God, without fulfilling their responsibility of both spiritual and physical work.

Today, remember that even though you may be waiting on God and His time of deliverance, He is also waiting for you to prepare yourself by working on your self both spiritually and physically. Keep working and God will send the rain to bless the work of your hands in His time. God is waiting on you.