Psalm 119: 81-82
I am worn out waiting for Your rescue, but I have put my hope in Your Word. My eyes are straining to see Your promises come true. When will You comfort me?
God has given us many precious promises, which He will fulfill in His time. He would never say that He will do anything that He would not be able to do, so we know that He will do everything He promised.
But it will all come in His time, not ours. We can wear ourselves out waiting for His rescue from the uncomfortable situation we find ourselves in. We can strain our eyes looking for His promises to come true. We can wait and wait for His comfort in our distresses.
But we will still put our hope in His Word, in what He has told us He will accomplish. We need never give up looking for His answers to our prayers. We can be assured that He will come through for us, as He has promised.
While we are still in this World, living among those who do not know Him (yet many who think they do, only know their own idea of Him), and we are surrounded by those who have a totally worldly world view, instead of God's Biblical view of reality; we must remember that we are to be His light in this darkness of understanding, we must be the salt that preserves and flavors the society in which we live, we are His witnesses to share with others the wonderful things He has already done for us.
God is faithful to us, and wants us to be faithful to Him, even when we don't see Him in our circumstances. If we want to see Him, He will show Himself, even in the most horrendous persecution we may be called upon to face. Some of us are already facing this opposition in the World, and others of us will soon also be confronted with it. Before long, every one of us who call upon the Name of the Lord will be the object of annihilation by those who are deceived by our enemy.
We all need to be strong in the Lord, availing ourselves of the Armor He has provided (Ephesians 6: 12-17), and standing watch against invasions of the Enemy into our attitudes and thinking processes.
And we know, because we've read the "last chapter," that God wins, and we win with Him, reigning with Him over all Creation, and enjoying Him forever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
