June 27th, 2018

Waiting for God

“Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”  Micah 7:7

Have you ever felt like you have been in God’s waiting room?  It can be a hospital, police station, funeral home, or doctor’s office.  It can in your own home.  You can spend day after day, waiting on God.  Waiting for a word, a sign, something.

Micah strikes the chord of hope with his words, “I will look to the Lord; I will wait for God; my God will hear me.”  There is a three-fold process in this.  First, he indicates he will look to the Lord.  He will use his free will to make an important choice: look to the One who can be to the solution, rather than focusing on the problem.  This is a powerful instruction for us as we face life’s challenges.  Where we do fix our attention?  If we are so wrapped up in the dilemma, we may miss the Lord.

Second, he states he will wait for God, the God of his salvation.  The word wait in Hebrew is ‘yachal” and is often translated in Scripture as hope.  The first use of this Hebrew word is in reference to Noah, who “waited” seven days before sending out the dove a second time, after the flood.  Those seven days may have felt like seven decades.  We are being given another piece of wisdom here – that as we continue to focus on the Lord, we do so with an expectation that God will do something.  We wait with hope.  We may wait 10 or 20 years.  We wait with hope – hope in the Lord, the God of our salvation.

Finally, Micah writes that he is confident his God will hear him.  This is what we hold onto as we wait, hope and look to the Lord.  He will hear us.  We trust in His response.  We trust in the timing of His response.    Are you waiting?  Look to Jesus, wait for God; He will hear you.