Learning to Do What We're Told

"Wait on the Lord” and He will work (Psalm 37: 34) But don’t wait sulking spiritually and feeling sorry for yourself, just because you can’t see one inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our own spiritual fits of emotion to “wait patiently for Him”? (Psalm 37:7) is not sitting with folded hands doing nothing, but it is learning to do what we are told.

Oswald Chambers

Whenever There Is Doubt - Wait

There are times when you can’t understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don’t fill it with busyness, just wait. The time of waiting may come to teach you the meaning of sanctification—to be set apart from sin and made holy—or it may come after the process of sanctification has begun to teach you what service means. Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—wait.

Oswald Chambers (1864-1917)