Psalm 130:6

I wait for the Lord

 

Thought for the day

There used to be a car advert in South Africa for a small car from a well-known German car manufacturer. The advert song had the lines ‘waiting, waiting, waiting for the bus. Where’s the bus?’ The advert was a person standing at a bus stop in the rain as this little car drove past. Cut to the people in the car nice and dry and warm and unbelievably happy. It wasn’t a particularly original advert that’s for sure.

Two things come to mind when I read today’s verse. The first is the iine from the advert about waiting (as if waiting is such a bad thing) and the second thing is how we have become so accustomed to things happening immediately that we are no longer able to wait for things. And that’s a big challenge for disciples of Jesus because as I’m sure we’ve experienced God’s timing is very rarely our timing.

How many of us can honestly say with the Psalmist ‘I wait for the Lord’? The reality is that the vast majority of believers cannot say they wait for the Lord, because they are time poor and if we’re honest God is not always our top priority.

We need to take time and wait for God sometimes. We need to take time and be still and listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. We need to take time and just enjoy being with God. We need to stop and wait, even if it’s a bus stop in the rain because fast and convenient is not always the best way.