IT IS GOOD TO (PART 3)

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:26

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

It is good to place our hope in the Lord and seek Him in all things.

These are two truths the scriptures have affirmed in the first two devotions of this four devotion series. To sum these truths up in the simplest way, we serve a Lord who can do all things and thus can give us anything we could ever ask for, anything we could ever need. Given this, we should seek Him and Him alone because no one can deliver us through life, helping us through any and all circumstances as He can.

Today in part 3, we see one more good thing we should do in our relationship with the Lord. Look again at this verse:

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:26 (NIV)

In order to get a better idea of what God’s word is instructing us to do in relation to the salvation of the Lord, let’s look at a few more translations of this verse:

It is good to wait patiently for the Lord to save us. (CEV)

So it is best for us to wait in patience—to wait for him to save us. (GNT)

It is good that one should be quiet and wait for the saving power of the Lord. (NLV)

Life’s struggles and challenges can sometimes leave us yearning for this life to be over, for the Lord to just whisk us away from our troubles and into the time He has promised us when we will be free from all pain and sin and hardship and affliction. It’s that hope of salvation that we cling to when we have decided to receive Jesus as Savior no matter how tough life becomes, but as we see in our scriptures today, we are to wait and wait patiently for the day when the Lord will pull us from this world and into His salvation.

In other words, we aren’t to get impatient as we wait for the Lord to do what He said He would do for us.

You see, Satan, our enemy, wields impatience against us like a weapon to keep us from the work the Lord calls us to. He knows that when a Christian sits around and begrudges their world and life circumstances, praying for the Lord to just set them free from it all, they are not doing what the Lord has called them to do and that’s making disciples for Jesus.

It’s true. We can yearn so much for what’s still to come that we lose sight of what the Lord wants us to do in the present. We can and we do.

This is why the word of God for us today from Lamentations is so critical. For the Lord wants us to know that it is good to wait quietly and patiently for His salvation to come, for the day when He uses His saving power to rescue us from death and the grave to abide with Him forever.

Until that day comes, it’s our obligation and responsibility every day to seek the Lord’s will and the guidance to carry it out, then respond in obedience as we fulfill His purposes. We cannot rest when it comes to these efforts because there is too much at stake, too many people who need to find the same salvation we have received.

Too many people who need to understand themselves that it is good to patiently wait for the salvation of the Lord to come.  

Tomorrow, we finish this series with Part 4.

Amen

In Christ,

Mark
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