p. 171 | Waiting Upon the Lord

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 11.

Waiting Upon the Lord

"THEY that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." As our wasted physical energies must be restored by suitable refreshment, so our spiritual powers, exhausted in our conflicts with the world, the flesh, and the devil, need also to be renewed. This new inspiration of strength is not earth-born but comes from God. His Spirit alone can invigorate, strengthen, and renew, and enable us to continue the conflict. It is by communing with God, as Moses did on the mount, that we are lifted above the world, and enabled to endure and overcome. He has erected a throne of grace, where he invites us to audience with him, and where we may make known all our wants and weaknesses, and obtain grace to help in time of need. It is only by waiting upon him, in the way that he himself has appointed, that his helping grace can be obtained. Are you tempted? Are you tried? Are you almost overcome? Wait on God, call upon his name, supplicate his grace, and he will strengthen you with might by his Spirit to do his will. He never disregards the voice of earnest, importunate, pleading prayer. "He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."— Sel.