Andrew Murray's "Waiting on God" (Day #28) - For the Coming of His Son.
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 - ...you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven...
It is so easy for us to be consumed, as we look for God, in what will be, rather than what is here before us.
Andrew Murray: "It is always easier to be engaged with the religion of the past or the future than to be faithful in the religion of today. As we look to what God has done in the past, or will do in time to come, the personal claim of present duty and present submission to His working may be escaped. Waiting on God must ever lead to waiting for Christ as the glorious consummation of His work; and waiting for Christ must ever remind us of the duty of waiting upon God, as our only proof that the waiting for Christ is in spirit and truth. There is such a danger of our being so occupied with the things that are coming more than with Him who is come; there is such scope in the study of coming events for imagination and reason and human ingenuity, that nothing but deeply humble waiting on God can save us from mistaking the interest and pleasure of intellectual study for the true love of Him and His appearing. All you that say you wait for Christ's coming, be sure that you wait on God now."
Murray goes on to talk about a bride who is about to marry a king. She so looks forward to what life will be like, to be married to a king, that she spends no time in the present being in love with the king. Therefore, she becomes an unfit bride.
This behavior is so present in our natures. We set our eyes on what life will be like when Christ comes, yet all the while He is here present with us now.
Father, please forgive me of this very transgression. I too have my eyes set upon heaven, but daily am inclined to walk by your very presence.
