1. I waited patiently for the Lord. Patient waiting upon God was a special characteristic of our Lord
Jesus. All through his agony in the garden, his trial of cruel mockings before
Herod and Pilate, and his passion on the tree, he waited in omnipotence of
patience. No glance of wrath, no word of murmuring, no deed of vengeance came
from God’s patient Lamb. And shall we be petulant and rebellious? And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Neither Jesus the Head, nor any one of
the members of his body, shall ever wait upon the Lord in vain. Note the figure
of inclining, as though the suppliant cried out of the lowest depression, and
condescending love stooped to hear his feeble moans. What a marvel it is that
our Lord Jesus should have to cry as we do, and wait as we do, and should
receive the Father’s help after the same process of faith and pleading as must
be gone through by ourselves! The Son of David was brought very low, but he
rose to victory; and here he teaches us how to conduct our conflicts so as to
succeed after the same glorious pattern of triumph. Let us arm ourselves with
the same mind, and maintain the Holy War.
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