Life's Inanities and Ironies

  "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." — Psalm 40:1 David was anointed long before he was crowned. Between the horn of oil and the throne lay caves, betrayals, and opportunities to seize what God had promised by the wrong means. The most important education of his life was not how to be king. It was how not to take the kingdom. Twice he could have killed Saul. In the cave at Engedi his men whispered that the Lord had delivered the enemy into his hand. The circumstances looked like providence. David cut the skirt, and then his heart smote him. “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed” (1 Samuel 24:6). Not every open door in a cave is from God. Some are tests to see whether you love the promise more than the Promiser. David inquired of the Lord again and again — at Keilah, after Ziklag burned. He did not treat yesterday’s instruction as today’s automatic answer. First Samuel 30:6–8 is worth han...

Text: Psalm 40:1 (KJV) "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.” In a world that demands instant gratification, where men chase fleeting pleasures and quick fixes, the Word of God calls us to a higher way—a way of faith, trust, and patient endurance. Psalm 40:1 stands as a beacon of hope and a challenge to every believer: "I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." Waiting on the Lord is not a passive act; it is an active, faith-filled surrender to the sovereign will of God. Today, let us explore what it means to wait on the Lord, drawing from the unchanging truths of both the Old and New Testaments, and let us be stirred to trust Him more fully. The Meaning of Waiting on the Lord To wait on the Lord, as David declares in Psalm 40:1, is to place our confidence in God’s timing and His promises, even when our circumstances scream for us to take matters into our own hands. The Hebrew word for “waited pat...