“BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO WAIT FOR HIM!”

 Isaiah 30:18                          (ESV)

“Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore HE exalts HIMSELF to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a GOD of justice; “BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO WAIT FOR HIM”.”

WAITING on the LORD to direct me precisely where HE wants me to go, when HE wants me to go, and how HE wants me to get there!  PATIENCE has never been a strength of mine.  I’ve always been the person who wanted to “make things happen”, and precisely when I wanted them to happen!  Learning to WAIT ON THE LORD (Psalms 27:14) is not something that comes easily to me, and probably most of us.  

“BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO WAIT FOR HIM” is what I was trying to focus on this morning, but while writing this I kept being DRAWN to “therefore HE EXALTS HIMSELF to show MERCY to you”!  Of course, most know my story about Psalms 46:10, “"Be still, and know that I am GOD. I will be EXALTED among the nations, I will be EXALTED in the earth!”  When I saw this, it was as GOD was telling me that HE was being EXALTED in me having to WAIT, so for me that makes it ALL worthwhile!  

Am I worthy or special because HE CHOSE ME?  No, Jacob was CHOSEN before he was even born (Romans 9:13)!  Romans 9:15-16 says “15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. 16 So then IT DEPENDS NOT ON HUMAN WILL OR EXERTION, but on GOD, WHO has mercy.”  The only reason I am here today is because GOD has MERCY!!!

GOD EXALTS HIMSELF to display MERCY on me!  “BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO WAIT FOR HIM” for GOD is working ALL THINGS FOR MY GOOD (Romans 8:28)!  It “IT DEPENDS NOT ON HUMAN WILL OR EXERTION, but on GOD, WHO has MERCY”!  HE IS EXALTED and I am BLESSED!  “BLESSED ARE ALL THOSE WHO WAIT FOR HIM”!!!