Wait, the Verb

The past couple of months has been a lot of decisions and seeking in direction- ministry opportunities, uganda, work, school, relationships with people, life, etc. As a result, I've been thinking through what it means to wait on the Lord. Waiting is not like Sadness from Inside Out, being dragged along through life, in a slump of idleness. Rather, waiting is an active and deeply engaged tension of dependent trust and stewardship.

"Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next."

                                                             - Elisabeth Elliot

Gaze of the Soul

"Like the eye which sees everything in front if it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ, the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do."

                                                        A.W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God