Andrew Murray's "Waiting on God" (Day #30) - Continually.
Hosea 12:6 - “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
Andrew Murray:
"This waiting is a promise. God's commands are enablings: gospel precepts are all promises, a revelation of what our God will do for us. When first you begin waiting on God, it is with frequent intermission and failure. But do believe God is watching over you in love and secretly strengthening you in it. There are times when waiting appears to be just losing time, but it is not so. Waiting, even in darkness, is unconscious advance, because it is God you have to do with, and Hi is working in you. God who calls you to wait on Him see your feeble efforts, and works it in you. Your spiritual life is in no respect your own work; as little as you begin it, can you continue it. It is God's Spirit who has begun the work in you of waiting upon God; He will enable you to wait continually."
It would seem that my job here is to show up continually, with expectation, with daily reading of Scriptures, and prayer. Then with the eyes of faith, look to God, through his indwelt Spirit to make the continual, and oft subtle changes over time.
The whole idea of God actually living within the believer is a mysterious thing, isn't it? If a surgeon were to cut open my chest, we would not find the Spirit of God.
To the unbeliever, I am thinking of an Arizona business acquaintance right now, this sounds like certain lunacy. Yet, undeniably, if we go sit on this dock, and stare into creation, there is something there calling us, that is much larger than ourselves.
The Scriptures tell us that our relationship with God started with his initiative. He called us, we respond to that call through repentance, and placing our faith in Him, and then the Holy Spirit performs a miraculous thing called regeneration (spiritual birth), enters into our lives, and slowly begins the fellowship of cultivating, and strengthening our faith.
Without our continual appointment with God, this process is stalled and we wind up the most feeble, and miserable of all Christians. One foot in the kingdom, and one foot in the world.
Just as our bodies have no life without the continual beating of our hearts, so our relationship with God has no life without our continual reliance, and waiting on Him.
