House of Glory: Waiting on God (Part 3)

THE SECOND meaning of the word carries the thought of EXPECTATION AND HOPE.

A real "waiting meeting" according to Scripture is an expectation meeting. It implies dependence. How necessary today that we wait upon God in the sense of expecting from Him. The natural man is so self-sufficient. He turns here and there and expects help from his natural ability, from friends or from circumstances. The whole trend of present-day teaching only builds him up in this independence. It has crowded itself into the religious world and today man is taught that he is his own saviour--that he need not expect help from any other but his own being.

How contrary to all the teaching of the Word. Quite true that on the natural plane there is occasion for man to help himself and not be dependent. But in the spiritual life we are taught to distrust self and to depend upon the power of the Holy Spirit. As Christians we may have learned this lesson in the initial steps of salvation and may be fully convinced of the need of help from God in that particular. Are we as thoroughly convinced of the absolute need of expecting from Him everything for the maintenance of that new life?

Remember the words of Paul, "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing"--also the words of Christ, "I can of mine own self do nothing." Truly we need to expect from God. How patient He is in reducing us. He has His own peculiar methods, but if we will submit to His order, He will reduce, crowd and strip us until with the Psalmist of old we cry, "My expectation is from Him."

"Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait I say, on the Lord."--Psalm 27:14. Here we find David again pressed and almost discouraged. He refused to expect anything from his own efforts but looking away from the frailty of the natural, with triumphant faith he sings out his heart to God, "All my expectation is from thee."

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