KEEPING BUSY WHILE WAITING!

Saturday, July 11, 2020

KEEPING BUSY WHILE WAITING!

James 5:7-8

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

G. Campbell Morgan said: Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort.  Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

If you have ever watched a horse race, then you probably have seen at least one horse that was hard to load in the starting gate. The jockey is mounted and speaks soothingly to the spirited steed, but a handler also has the horse by the bridle and must pull him toward the start. The horse is ready and is impatient to hear the bell and feel the gate open so that he may run.

We are often impatient while waiting for God’s next command. We must not abandon the last command while waiting for the next. Often the last command will pick up both speed and intensity. In fact it may seem that the last command will never reach a conclusion but we see another task before us and w are anxious to be finished with the old one. Hang on. Wait on God.

Two rains were promised and needed before a harvest. Adam Clarke said: The rain of seed time; and the rain of ripening before harvest: the first fell in Judea, about the beginning of November, after the seed was sown; and the second toward the end of April, when the ears were filling, and this prepared for a full harvest. Without these two rains, the earth would have been unfruitful. These God had promised: I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, Deut 11:14.

Dear Lord, you know that I am impatient. Please send the Holy Spirit to help position me in the starting gate. Let me run with patience the race that is set before me. AMEN