Theology

9 Ways We Are To Wait Upon the Lord

9 Ways We Are To Wait Upon the Lord

Right now, most of the world is paralyzed as we all remain hunkered down in our homes waiting for this coronavirus plague to loosen its grip. Thus, waiting is a very relevant topic.

When the Bible speaks of waiting, it’s an entirely different thing than what we do after we take a number at the motor vehicle department. Biblical waiting is not a passive activity, but is demonstrated by active dependence upon and obedience to God. Thus, waiting upon God is a spiritual discipline that we should seek to practice in our lives. Here are nine ways we can practice biblical waiting.

COVID, Corporate Worship, and Communion

COVID, Corporate Worship, and Communion

No one would deny that these are strange days in which we’re currently living. We’ve all been forced to adapt our daily lives to this new reality. Sadly, this even includes changing the way the church conducts its ministry. I have been encouraged by those members of our church who have been struggling over the loss of corporate worship. Some have reached out to inform me that they find the loss of Sunday worship downright agonizing. This is a reflection of grace in their hearts. Pity the person who can have public worship taken away without ever missing it. I would rather go to bed without dinner than go a Sunday without church!

Truly our hearts resonate with words of the psalmist in Psalm 84—

How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD . . . Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah. For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.”