Waiting Quietly for Victory?

I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him.

~ Psalm 39:7, NLT

Ever watched a war movie? Do the soldiers "Wait Quietly" for victory? Of course not. They do everything they can to take over the enemies position, so that they can advance and hopefully take victory. They kill, destroy, harm, do whatever it takes. What do we do when "war" or problems rain down on us in our lives? As humans, we want to do the same thing as these soldiers We want to kill, destroy, harm, attack, defeat our enemy.

Now, look at Psalm 39:7 above: "I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes in Him". How "Normal" is that? How much against human nature to wait, and do nothing, let someone else do our fighting for us? Well, think about how powerful God is. He made the whole universal, and all that is. He destroyed the Earth with a flood, He caused DEAD people to come back to life, He caused a river, a mighty large river, to separate and allow His children to walk across on DRY, not muddy, land, and then destroy, drown their enemies when they tried to cross. He sent "Plaques" upon the Egyptians when their Pharaoh would not let the Children of Israel go, plaques of frogs, darkness, ALL water turning into blood........until Pharaoh got the idea that God, Jehovah had POWER to do what He said He would do. Of course, Pharaoh hardened his heart, and got really stupid and went after them. My point here is this: God does not need us to help Him fight OUR battles. He is perfectly good at doing it Himself, thank you very much.

The first three words of the above scripture, Psalm 39:7 are, I think, the three hardest things to do as a human being, and definitely a Christian, the are: "I wait quietly..........." We don't want to "Wait quietly", we want to act. What do you want to do if you find out your child has been bullied at school? What do you do if you find out there is a guy at your wife's office that is making advances at her and won't stop? You get angry, you want to hurt someone. (This is usually the male reaction, I being a man, only know about this one, ladies, you as a rule are usually much more level headed at times like this, and try and think these thing through,and come up with a better solution, but we men just want to Pound some heads.}

Have we gone mad? God is in the "head pounding" business, not us. God knows when it is time to pound heads. He is VERY patient, sorry ladies but even more then you. He gives many many chances, and does NOT pound heads until that is the last resort.

When your mother is dying from cancer, is it easy to "wait quietly before God"? When you lost your job and have no money left in the bank and may lose your home, is it easy to "Wait quietly before God?". When you get the news that your child has been in an accident and is in critical condition and may not make it through the night do you want to "Wait quietly before God"? No, we want to cry out to Him, make a bunch of noise, have snot running down and out our nose, cry to HIM ask Him why this happened. We don't want other people to come up and tell us how sorry they are, we want to "Pound some heads" But whose heads do we pound? Cancer is not visible, not a person not physical we can't beat it up. The guy at your wife's office who has been making advances at her, well you could go down and pound, but what would be the outcome? He might be bigger then you and pound your head. And to what end? What about the bully that has been messing with your kids? Pound their heads and you could go to prison for child abuse. The car accident that put your child in a coma? Find out who was responsible and look them up and pound their heads? What if it was your child that was responsible? We want to "Get even", to get our eye for an eye. Someone or something hurt someone we love, and we want revenge, now. This is exactly why we need to: "...wait quietly before God, for our victory comes from HIM"

Ever been through a divorce? Was it calm? Did you and your ex, just come to a decision, and everything went well? No such thing, you and your ex can be civil about the whole thing, but there are resentments, there are accusations, there are hurts, and if you don't verbalize them, they eat away at you for years, maybe the rest of your life. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not saying schedule a meeting with your ex, and get all these feelings out in the open. I am saying give them, your battles, to God and "....wait quietly before, for my victory comes from Him".

God is a God of action, but more times He is a God of patience. He is SO patient at times, we get angry. We want the situation we are going through taken care of NOW, especially if it concerns a loved one. It is easier for us to go through an ordeal, then have someone we love to face hard times.

If we "wait patiently before God...." what happens? WE grow, WE mature, WE see that God does love us, and that He will take care of us in HIS time. We see that we are puny little beings that cannot take care of ourselves, that we rely SOLELY upon Him.

Psalm 121:2
My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth! Where does our help come from? What are His credentials that He can do anything?

I love putting these two scriptures together: "I wait quietly before God, because, My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth, and victory comes from HIM"

The two hardest things to do in almost any situation: "Wait quietly" and God ask us to do them all the time. It has to do with trust. Who do we trust? Ourselves? Wow, we will let ourselves down 100% of the time. Our family? They love us, but are still human beings and are limited in what they can do. God Jehovah, our provider, our creator, our deliverer? With out a doubt, He can do ANTHING, and He will. Just, "Wait quietly before Him, remember where our victory comes from? Yeah that's right: Our God Jehovah, our creator, our provider, our deliverer, our FATHER.