Day 16: I wait, I hope, that 'at an acceptable time, O God ....'

Day 16: I wait, I hope that "At an acceptable time, O God ....."

Read: Psalm 27, Psalm 33:20-22; Psalm 69:1-14; 2Corinthians 5:17-6:2

Look back on your last Doctor's appointment. We are told to arrive at their office at a certain appointed time. Before we arrive, perhaps days, weeks or months previously we call ahead to the doctor's office to make an appointment as we were told to do. The Doctor's scheduler gets out the Doctor's calender and offers perhaps several times which are open at that moment and tells you "these are the acceptable times" available for you to see the Doctor that you may address those issues of concern. So you look at your own calender. see where it matches theirs and make appointment.

The day of the appointment arrives and you do your very best to arrive at the Doctor's office on time - at the acceptable time they gave you. You rush like crazy hoping you do not run into traffic and perhaps praying that the Doctor does not get called away suddenly for an emergency elsewhere. In that case, you wait for another acceptable appointment time and hopefully that time you will be able to see them.

"At an acceptable time, O God ...." We wait for that acceptable time for God to answer our prayers. However long it takes, we hope for that acceptable time to come very quickly. We wait and we hope that now becomes the acceptable time. Waiting and hoping for God's acceptable time, in our own time, looking at your watch, or on your calender wondering, waiting, hoping God is not too long coming.

A heart, waiting in hopeful expectation for God to come and make a difference. In the Biblical sense 'hope' is not "gee, I sure hope he gets here soon" but "I know that my expectations of waiting for 'that acceptable time, O God' to arrive will never be in vain." When I pray in hopeful expectation, In the best of times, In the very worst of times, the acceptable time of my salvation will arrive in the form of Jesus Christ. The strengthening, all sufficient grace of Jesus Christ will always be there right on time.

God always desires to give us the things He knows our hearts need the most live a life filled with hopeful expectation that an 'acceptable time' God's salvation arrives.

Psalm 27:14

'Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!'

Pray: Ask that God grant such an overwhelming sense of His sufficiency for the day that you will be able to rest in the unshakable hope that the 'acceptable time' will arrive at just the right moment. Salvation will arrive exactly when you need it.

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Allen Froese - Once Again (I Am Waiting) - Worship Music Lyrics Video

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This song is about hungering for more of God