[Monday's Devotional] - Waiting for God

Having been very unhappy at work for the last 2½ years (not that anyone at work knows that!) I shared in my Autumn devotionals how God had been instructing me during that time to 'wait', and not look for another job. I shared how he had encouraged me with the 'Mulberry Trees' scripture, as he had encouraged David, telling him to 'wait' until he heard 'the sound of a going' in the tops of the Mulberry Trees. (2 Samuel 5:23-24 – KJV). I have waited and watched the Mulberry Tree outside my office window change with the passing seasons and finally, last November I heard 'the sound of a going' and knew that 2013 would be a year of great change in many ways.

How often do we disobey God because we think we know better or because things are just too hard or we are impatient?  We can seek our own will, our own way, in our own timing.  David wrote "I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." Psalm 27:14  [NIV] – author's emphasis

This year has already brought me great joy, and great sorrow.  Whatever ill-winds are blowing in your life today, Psalm 27 in it's entirety brings help for today and hope for tomorrow.  Confidence in God's unfailing love for us is our antidote to any fear we may have.

David is my favourite messer-upper, but he knew the answer: 'One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock."
Psalm 27:4-5 [NIV]

Why not make time today to shelter in His presence:

Psalm 27 by Hillsongs

Dawn Milward