"WAIT ON THE LORD"!

Have you ever, or do you ever, get weary of waiting on GOD? You think you need a new vehicle, or you need a new set of clothes. The list can be endless. Psalms 27:14 tells us to "WAIT on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: WAIT, I say, on the LORD." The Children of Israel had been in captivity for 430 years to the Egyptians (Exodus 12:41). 430 YEARS!!! Only then did HE deliver them from Pharaoh and directed their paths during their exit from Egypt. Scripture indicates in Exodus 13:17 GOD sent them a longer exit route to avoid a battle with the Philistines. HE did not want to create a desire to return to Egyptian slavery. As we all know, they "wandered" in the wilderness for forty years until they decided to do things GOD's way. The "things" we often desire are usually exactly that, "things"! Do we ever ask in our prayer time for understanding, or wisdom, or maybe compassion? Or maybe a heart to help those who GOD puts in our path and directs us to help? GOD has a plan and a purpose for even the "bad" things that happen in our lives. HE shapes and molds us through the difficult times to "strengthen our hearts"! In Exodus 9:16, GOD is speaking to Pharaoh through Moses. HE says "And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth." We all know that Pharaoh did not heed the alert. First Pharaoh's son, and eventually Pharaoh himself, would pay the price of death for Pharaoh's unbelief. The Children of Israel had to do one thing, through all of the trials of the wilderness. They had to let GOD "strengthen their heart", and they had to "WAIT ON THE LORD!"