Rest in the Lord Psalm 37:7

7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.



Isn't it easy to get impatient with life? We go along and we want happiness and peace and contentment and we are willing to do almost anything to get it. It is so tempting to watch the people around us as they are following the way of the world and it looks like they are prospering just fine. David watched those kinds of people go through life taking no real regard for God or His ways and their lives seemed to be so good compared to his. He walked with God and he loved God with all his heart and his life was filled with strife and danger and for a long time there was very little peace and contentment in his life at all.

Yet David's advice is, "rest in the Lord and wait patiently on Him." Why should we wait? Why shouldn't we reach out and grab all the gusto that life has to offer just like everybody else does? Does God want us to suffer? Does He not want our lives to be filled with happiness and prosperity and blessings? Yes, God does want our lives to be filled to overflowing. He has a path picked out for us to walk where those blessings and those provisions can be found. The path is accessible through obedience to His instructions. When we circumvent those instructions and those directions that He has given to us for a reason, then we may delay His ability to bless us the way that He wants to bless us.

We can follow the way of the world and indulge in it as it may seem right to do in our own minds, but that way will catch up to us. We may choose to do things our way instead of His way and we may even seem to prosper for a season but the day will come when that season will end and we will find ourselves empty and our lives headed in the wrong direction.

We need to learn to rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. We need to determine in our hearts and in our minds that we are going to stand with Him no matter what. It is that kind of determination and commitment that God is looking for and it is that kind of life God will bless exceedingly abundantly more than we could ever ask or hope for!