“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.”
Psalm 130:5
I love Scripture. I love how it is alive. I love how I can feel distant one moment and then reading engulfs me in His love and compassion and truth.
Earlier this week God showed me how I have lately been reading His Word for information rather than transformation. I need both. I need to study it. I need it to study me.
I sat down to write the reflection of my heart in response. Of what He was teaching me. Tuesday He said “wait”. Wednesday He said “wait”. Every day, “wait”.
I don’t know why. And yet when I read the above verse this morning, I knew for now I need to just hang out in his word. To wait. To put my hope in His word. Not in my writing about it. But in it.
So for now, my soul waits for the Lord. I will place my hope in His Word.
Linking today with Still Saturday, Fresh Brewed Sundays and the Sunday Community
“I need to study it. I need it to study me.” Love that!!!
I will marinate in that today…
Thanks Mel I sure needed that reminder today!! I am waiting on the Lord in hopes he brings new of great joy.
Melanie, I love that image, and your words and your love of the WORD. It’s a funny thing when we want to tell the stories and He says to wait. I’ve been in that place of aching to share but knowing the time is not right, for watever reason He holds us back. I do know, we’re wise to heed Him. His timing is always far better than ours. Eager to hear what He’s teaching….but only when the time is right for the sharing 😉 Bless you, sweet friend!
How wonderful when we have an appetite for His Word!
I find that I need a balance of reading His Word for information like reading and understanding the history or prophesy but other times I need transformation of my spirit and soul. Some days I need both but other times it is a week or so of one or the other. When He is saying wait, I go to information but then my brain goes on overload and I so… need reflection and transformation.
A thought came to me as Rob was reading scripture during his message today. Putting the inflection on different words than I would have gave the words different meaning. Now, I know that from teaching children to read but I hadn’t put that information to the test lately while reading His Word.
“Waiting” is a good God-thing. Especially in our present-day world when there’s hardly any waiting time. I sometimes think of the farmers in the past that spent the day with a horse or two plowing the land for hours. And praying, worshiping, turning to the Lord and waiting for the next step. NOW… cell phones, computer stuff, texting [NOT ME!!!}, and other forms of constant elements ringing in our ears, in one way or another can keep us from truly waiting on and for Him and responding to His waiting for us. Very important phase of life we are focused on, walking through. Thanks for sharing.
This AM as I was reading Psalm 77, one of the comments in The Treasury of David Commentary spoke of the Psalmist praying not only with his mind, but with his heart. I was convicted that even in my prayer time I often pray from my thoughts and not my heart, just as we read the Word for information and not for the transformation of our hearts. Thanking God today for how He gently teaches us through His wonderful Word and how He allows others to write blogs and notes that also encourage us in the same lessons!
Praying you find rest and peace as you soak up His Word this week my friend!
so good and encouraging … thank you.
Hi sweet Melanie
Our Pappa does have a way to study us through His word, doesn’t He! I find it astounding how He always brings us back to the end of ourselves so that we need to make a BIG u-turn, rushing back into His Loving Embrace, reminding us that there is no better place in all eternity to dwell. Thanks for taking us all back during your u-turn moment! We all needed to be reminded.
Love and blessings to you, dear friend!
Mia