[The Mayor]

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November 7, 2008

Waiting

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READ: Psalm 70

Make haste to help me, O Lord! —Psalm 70:1

Make haste to help me, O Lord!” the psalmist David prayed (Ps. 70:1). Like him, we don’t like to wait. We dislike the long lines at super-market checkout counters, and the traffic jams downtown and around shopping malls. We hate to wait at the bank or at a restaurant.

And then there are the harder waits: a childless couple waiting for a child; a single person waiting for marriage; an addict waiting for deliverance; a spouse waiting for a kind and gentle word; a worried patient waiting for a diagnosis from a doctor.

What we wait for, however, is far less important than what God is doing while we wait. In such times He works in us to develop those hard-to-achieve spiritual virtues of meekness, kindness, and patience with others. But more important, we learn to lean on God alone and to “rejoice and be glad” in Him (v.4).

F. B. Meyer said, “What a chapter might be written of God’s delays! It is the mystery of the art of educating human spirits to the finest temper of which they are capable. What searchings of heart, what analyzings of motives, what testings of the Word of God, what upliftings of soul. . . . All these are associated with those weary days of waiting, which are, nevertheless, big with spiritual destiny.”

Be still, My child, and know that I am God!
Wait thou patiently—I know the path you trod.
So falter not, nor fear, nor think to run and hide,
For I, thy hope and strength, am waiting by thy side. —Hein

God stretches our patience to enlarge our soul.

Bible in One Year: Ezekiel 28–30; Proverbs 14:12-24

[pollywog]

Oh Mayor!!!
Did I need this ODB today!
Thank you so much.
Good Morning to the rest of you here at Amy's Place!
I am not sure if you all are going through the same feelings as I am ,but I have been very down and feeling overwhelmed with " where from here"!

We are raising our 10 year old grandson.
Our public educational system is the pits, and we don't have the money to put him in private school. We don't feel adequate to homeschool, and even wonder with a Obama administration if that will be severely attacked!

Just wonderful to know that God is still on the Throne.

Waving Good Morning from my kitchen table....

Polly

[jaycee]

Thank you for another wonderful Daily Bread message this Friday morning, Mr. Mayor! Wishing you a very nice day!

[JustAmy]

Good morning, Mayor.
Thank you for ODB. Another great inspirational message.

Praying that God will Bless America and her Troops.

Have a beautiful weekend, Rus.