wait

i've said it before
and i find it to be true again... and again
the way that God communicates is often through repetition.  
over the past couple of weeks
i seem to hear from each possible direction
that  

God is good to those who wait on Him.

president kemper opened yesterday's meeting with verses from psalm 37

be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him...those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

and those words brought to completion the third piece to this puzzle.

this morning i listened to matt gilman and cory asbury sing,

i waited patiently upon the Lord, and He inclined and heard my cry.  

and for weeks bethany dillon has echoed through the quiet moments

You say you're good to those who wait...

You can do more in my waiting than [i can do in my doing] 

i've tried for a long time to be the type of person who waits on Him.

i've wanted to look like sarah and shawna and neil and derek and erin and plenty of others 

but wanting it is nothing if not for the doing.

andrew murray writes about the morning watch in a life of obedience 

and this prompt is good

but there is this discipline of practicing God's presence

sarah young and ann voskamp preach this as necessity

and i agree.

a healthy person is one who stops multiple times each day to recognize God's presence and His absolute competency

and at the same time his or her own insufficiency, incompetency, dependency.

it feels good to pause often to resubmit oneself to One who is able. 

now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever...

wait on Him. He alone is faithful to the end.