Wait

"Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD." Psalm 27:14

We, as student-patients of the living God's voice, have one assignment, and that is to wait on His voice. 

What kind of "waiting" are we talking about? 

Is this "waiting" the kind of waiting we do when in a line at a bank, or when waiting in line for food?

In this kind of waiting, we patiently stand in a line awaiting our turn to be served, and to help the time go by, we may lend our ear to conversations around us, we may take out our phone for amusement, or we may simply wander off in thought. 

If the Bible is referencing this kind of lethargic waiting, then what are we waiting for?

Maybe we wait for some supernatural demonstration to confirm that God sees us.

Maybe we wait for some thing to occur in life to help us confirm some belief we have in God, to the end we may take courage in that belief, to never let it go.

If the Bible is counseling its student to simply stand idle, waiting for some thing to somehow occur for strengthening some ideal or image we have of God, then what good is His Bible and that Spirit forwarding it? Let us then (I say sarcastically) stand and wait for the revelation of our image of God to appear and confess to us a reason to believe on whatever we believe on.

But I should not think that the mind of the Bible would have its student inactive, and this I know because "the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed," 1 Samuel 2:3. 

The "waiting" referenced by the living God is no inactive service, like as we wait for food to cook in an oven or in a microwave; this is contrary to His religious character.

The "waiting" spoken of should rather be thought of as a waiter waiting on a table.

Is a waiter lazy? Is a waitress inactive? Is a waiter idle? A waiter serves the individual they wait on, and when it comes to the living God's voice, we ought to also carry our conversation as the waiter, that is, "rightly dividing the word of truth," 2 Timothy 2:15. 

There is no physical God to wait on; there is no natural man to worship; there is no literal temple to go in to; how then do we wait on the living God? Paul just told us, saying, "Rightly dividing the word of truth," 2 Timothy 2:15, which means, "Study to shew thyself approved unto God," 2 Timothy 2:15. 

Our assignment is to match the same spiritual wisdom of the Bible's mind; nothing matters but that our conversation's face dawns the same face as the living God's religious character. Our conversation learns "the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," Colossians 1:9, by waiting on His words, for by examining and proving His words, we wait on them. Herein is the reason why we are counseled, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:2. 

Paul plainly tells us the definition of "waiting," and of what kind of waiting we are to do, that it is a type of waiting wherein the mind of our faith's confidence is transformed. This transformation is what is meant in the saying, "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart," Psalm 27:14. 

By mentally and actively waiting on His words, our heart is to receive strength, making it well for us to know that "wisdom strengtheneth," Ecclesiastes 7:19. This is the logic behind "waiting" on His voice, even the hope of better comprehending His voice to capture wisdom to live by.

The living God's religious character is not inactive or without intelligence; an unintelligent and inactive religion is one that encourages the use of idols, doctrines, ceremonies, and religious laws to bless the conversation. But the living God's course of learning is higher than what we know and accept. There are therefore two types of "waiting" we may entertain: the first is found in meditating on His words to edify our faith's heart and mind; the second is on aimlessly resting on the philosophical opinion of religious speculation to satisfy the self-cultivated or inherited belief we have of God. To the one, we improve our faith's cognition by investigating and proving His voice; to the other we weaken our faith's cognition "through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men," Colossians 2:8; the course that we choose is ours to make. 

But for us who actually care to have our heart lifted, refreshed, and edified on heavenly things, it is well for us to say, "I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways," Psalm 129:15. 

We chase the living God's religion; not the religion of pastor so and so, of mother and father, or of self's spiritual ideal. We give our confidence to the Bible's wisdom not to compare it with what we believe, or to pick and choose what of it makes sense to what we believe, but to edify what we think we know, to the end we may have a sober spiritual understanding kindly directing who we are, and who we care to be. If we will open this book, and if we will bless the understanding of this book's wisdom, we ought to therefore exercise humility, willingly casting self into the dust that His words may regenerate it. 

We have no physical realm or dimension to enter in to, therefore it takes very great humility to quiet the mind for actually acknowledging His words. In this age of self-gratification and misinformation, it is easy, because we do not quickly grasp Scripture's language, to lend our energy to the spiritual opinion of others, but this is not what the living God counsels us to do. Every individual conversation is to wait on His voice for a personal revelation of His face, and although we all think differently, and although we all possess our own essence of being, His face remains the same; there is no misinterpreting His voice if we are diligently and patiently examining His words. 

Our realm and dimension for drawing nearer to His name is mental and spiritual; the only way to commune with this wisdom is through edifying the heart of our inward person. As we, according to how we are counseled by His wisdom, wait on His voice, we will receive knowledge of His will for our heart and mind, by an experimental faith, to chase the hope of His intention, strengthening who are for others who may not yet know who they are. And this is the blessing behind waiting on His voice, for we do not simply wait on His understanding for self's good, but it says, "Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification," Romans 15:2. 

We therefore ought to wait on His voice, because wisdom is the end of His understanding's higher education, and wisdom is meant to be shared. We fail as human beings, and as stewards of the living God's religious character, because we have no benevolent wisdom revealing the living God's will and intention. But counsel is given to change how we operate: "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD," Psalm 27:14, we are instructed. 

Let us then patiently wait on the revelation of the living God's new covenant science. We have breath in our lungs to improve our personal and devotional character, and to help us in this task, "we have received a commandment from the Father," 2 John 1:4. Therefore "be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves," James 1:22. "Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ," 1 Peter 1:13. 

Know For Your Own self

"Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good." Job 34:4

I know of no better statement that this.

Then entire philosophy of the living God's throne is here rehearsed, and such a philosophy is loudly uttered through the illustration of His man suffering the tree. 

How so?

With His man "having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, a very profound point of view is given, for what is preached is the weight of personal and practical knowledge above inherited or self-cultivated spiritual understanding. 

That act on the tree accomplished the magnification of one course of learning and the condemnation of another. That "flesh" on the tree, according to Paul's counsel, should not be looked at as the literal flesh of a human being. That "flesh" represents a religious ideology, and with that ideology nailed to the tree, that ideology is become an accursed religious mind of practice, for it is now acknowledged as "sin," which is why, "having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56. 

That "flesh" represents a religious conversation  governed by the religious law and tradition of the pen and impression of priests and ministers, and with the religious ideology of blessing, sanctification, baptism, favor, piety, purity, intelligence, and faith, through obeying the religious law, annihilated from the living God's religious character, the way is opened up for the mind to prove and experience the living God's words for personal knowledge to live by. Our conversation is to be ruled by no other mind than that mind created through learning of and doing His words; this is why it says, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:2. 

Paul's counsel reflects the living God's religious character, that His will and intention is not to make the conversation appear favorable through "the perfect manner of the law of the fathers," Acts 22:3, but to make the conversation "perfect, as pertaining to the conscience," Hebrews 9:9. The conversation's conscience is the living God's ultimate concern, and with His man "having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, this agenda is not hard to discern. 

The religious law hides the heart from the mind, taking the mind away from consciously thinking and feeling for its own self; with an unconscious mind having no knowledge of its own heart, the person is become a slave to what they think they perceive, and also a puppet to the opinion of another. With the religious law conquering our religious confidence, true thought on what is actually advocated and  believed on is removed from the person, for our confidence is on some thing giving a false sense of security; this is why it says, "Know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition," 1 Peter 1:18, and, "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind," Ephesians 4:22,23. 

Again, through this counsel given by Peter and Paul, that new "birth" preached through the tree is referenced, that it is inward, within the conversation's conscience. The "old" mind of worship and service must be put off, which "old" mind is represented by that "flesh" nailed to the tree. This "old" mind is Moses' mind of devotion, that "you are justified by the law," Galatians 5:4. That act on the tree disproves this "old" logic, which is why we are told, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come," Galatians 3:13,14.

The blessing of Moses is hereafter unlawful to think on or entertain, which blessing demands that "righteousness come by the law," Galatians 2:21, when it is that sanctification is not "through the law, but through the righteousness of faith," Romans 4:13. With that act on the tree condemning Moses' religious philosophy and magnifying Abraham's, the right religious character of the living God is preached, that it is His will and intention for the conversation's inwards to be intellectually and spiritually sound through a course of learning employing an exercise of faith on His words. Moses' manner of service by the religious law is today annihilated, abolished, and categorized as "sin"; "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56; allowing us to understand that "through knowledge shall the just be delivered," Proverbs 11:9. 

Again, the conversation is to be delivered from what? The conversation is to be delivered from "sin"; what is "sin"? With His man "having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56. And how is this deliverance forwarded? It says, "Through knowledge shall the just be delivered," Proverbs 11:9, allowing us to understand that the illustration of His man on the tree is a right revelation of the living God's intention, that His words should directly "purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God," Hebrews 9:14. 

The issue at hand is in how the conversation is managed, because if it is not properly taken care of, our person can become injurious to our environment. To correctly read the illustration of His man suffering the tree is to therefore observe the necessary liberty of mind from the pen of priests and ministers, so much so that such a mind doing His will and wisdom reports, "Why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?" 1 Corinthians 10:29. We are responsible for our own faith's growth and development; no other mind is responsible for our faith’s growth and development. Our faith's personal edification is the only means whereby our inward condition may bless our thoughts and feelings, for we have to care for ourselves, and if we do not understand that mental and spiritual blessing is earned by mental and inward taxation, we cannot know that every temporal blessing appears by the same diligent effort. 

The religious law makes the mind lazy and the heart careless, for if, for example, all I have to do is hide under water for three minutes, and then rise up from that water to claim some kind of “pardon” or “cleanliness” from some thing, and every time I sense "unworthiness," then let me hide under water and rise up from it as many times as I can, for by such an act, "I" am "well." If all I must do is this ceremony, or that ordinance, or fellowship on this handwritten sabbath, or preach this doctrine, to acquire that sanctity of the Deity, then let me do every religious ceremony and ordinance, and let me preach about and fellowship on what is handwritten, for by such an act, "I" am "well," and my conversation righteous before the Deity. But "if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain," Galatians 2:21; why? Because His "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come," Galatians 3:13,14. 

Thus, to hear a Christ preaching in favor of the religious law; which is that Christ of earth and under the heavens; it is to hear of a false doctrine committing gross violence against the living God's religious character. Our conversation's conscience is on the living God's heart, meaning that it is His intention for us to know, for our own self, what is right and decent; both personally and devotionally; without the force of another conscience. With Him openly condemning and annihilating the religious law, the conversation's maturity by learning of and proving His words is preached, leaving all accountability on the person for their own heart's condition. 

It is His will that we know and possess His aim in order for us to even get a sense of our own. We are not here to mentally and spiritually rule each other, but to mentally and spiritually edify one another that we may all, according to the liberty preached through His Faith's face, encourage one another to reach our best and highest potential; this is why it says, "Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works," Hebrews 10:24.

So then "let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good," Job 34:4, for if "the soul be without knowledge, it is not good," Proverbs 19:2. 

Live By Wisdom

I don't think we realize our own mortality, that our time on this earth is not permanent. We have a sense of our frailty, and we naturally understand that our fate is to one day have no more breath in our lungs, but we do not live as though this is the case, no matter how strongly we believe in our inevitable expiration. If we did understand that, one day, our peculiar essence will no longer pass through this realm, how much more thoughtful would we be? how much more forgetting of perceived wrong against us? how much more apt to listen? how much more caring towards self? how much more active in goals? how much more willing to inspire others to achieve their vision? Instead of getting out of our head, we are oddly sunken into the muck of damaging thoughts and feelings, and if understanding the very precious opportunity we have as functioning creatures, we would pray, "Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom," Psalm 90:12. 

What separates the living God from the gods and deities of every religion under heaven is the fact that He designs, creates, and sustains whatsoever His voice is entered into. Creation is His ultimate intention, and today, the creation of a right and healthy heart and mind is His aim. Because this creation is through His Spirit's words, our heart is "to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man," Ephesians 3:16, because "that which is born of the Spirit is spirit," John 3:6. Today, and for ever more, creation is confined to the heart of the mind, which is why we are counseled, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," Romans 12:2, and, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind," Ephesians 4:23. The mind is to find its members regenerated to help govern the heart and body to execute a life similar to the heart of the Spirit that created it, which is why the mind must be strengthened with His Spirit's words, and it is well to know that "wisdom strengtheneth," Ecclesiastes 7:19. 

To hear of creation by the living God's Spirit is to hear of creation by the wisdom of the living God's words. Such a creation is very personal and intimate, even as the example of creation's record in the book of Genesis teaches. Like as heaven and earth came about by no impression of hands, but only through words; as it says, "He spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast," Psalm 33:9; so too the heart of the mind is to find its self a living creation by no impression of hands, but only through the words of creation's present will and wisdom. 

Is this not taught through the illustration of His Christ on the tree? Isn't it written, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come"? Galatians 3:13,14.  The fact that this act on the tree establishes Abraham's mind of devotion witnesses to the fact that a course of service contrary to Abraham's is blotted out of existence. Because Abraham sought blessing not "through the law, but through the righteousness of faith," Romans 4:13, it is evident that a religion honoring the religious law for its creation and righteousness is no longer a valid approach to creation and righteousness. For if creation had occurred not through the direct Word of His Spirit, but through the pen and judgment of flesh, then we ought to think that creation is by commandments and traditions of priests and elders, but that record in Genesis chapter one tells a very different story, which record the illustration of His Christ on the tree verifies. 

Creation found the core of its being regenerated to newness only through the living God's voice; by hearing, examining, and doing the commandment, heaven and earth became what heaven and earth were ordained to be. With His Christ "having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances," Ephesians 2:15, we today may know that "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56, allowing us to understand that creation, being without the handwritten religious ethic, is inward, within the mind, even as it says, "Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom," Psalm 51:6. The heart of the mind is to be filled with the words of "the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding," Colossians 1:9; there is no more or less than this. With the religious law perpetually cursed in every age for handling, a message is preached for the wellness of the conversation's conscience, that it should no longer be directed by theoretical religious prescriptions, but by knowledge obtained through personally examining and doing His words.

Wisdom retained through examining and doing His thoughts should organize our life. Our decisions, our obligations, our desires, our thanksgiving, our goals, our benevolence, should be executed through wisdom retained by personally learning of and doing His words. We show forth the brilliance of His thoughts for us when allowing His words to not only prove our heart, but to also be the Corrector and Governor of our thoughts and feelings. We do not know how to live this life, and we have become desensitized to the fact that we must master our environment, because we have no real or sure wisdom of creation; by lending our mind to pre-conceived religious theories unproven to our sensibilities, a subconscious belief that trends and traditions define our existence is adopted.

We are born into a religious age preaching the imprisonment of the conscience, but the living God's doctrine is contrary to this belief, for if we were creations of His words, we would say, "Why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?" 1 Corinthians 10:29. The mind is creation's present realm because the human being is governed by thoughts and feelings. Let the mind perceive its empty condition and watch it begin to soberly think and feel not only for the heart and mind of its self, but for the heart and mind of other human beings. Religious laws and policies constrain the mind, keeping it from actually learning who and what it is, and such a practice bleeds into the natural life, for if my creed preaches the subjection of my conscience for blessing, then subconsciously I will believe it is right to limit and degrade every other conscience, which is why, by our coarse thoughts and feelings, we give more negative energy to one another than positive energy. 

Such a creed is not the living God's doctrine, for, as that creating Spirit, He understands what magnifies the higher and lower faculties of the human being, which is why, through that act on the tree, it is an eternal fact that "the strength of sin is the law," 1 Corinthians 15:56. The religious law; or Moses' religious philosophy; must be exchanged for Abraham's mind of devotion because, like creation, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness," Galatians 3:6. To believe on religious laws and traditions is not to believe on the living God's words; your mind is not blessed by "your vain conversation received by tradition," 1 Peter 1:18. Abraham, like creation, maintained his faith's core through a promise, and it is well to know that "we have received a commandment from the Father," 2 John 1:4, to "receive the promise of the Spirit through faith," Galatians 3:14. What is this promise? Concerning creation's present promise, we read: "Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life," Romans 6:4.

The full illustration of His Christ on and divorced from the tree is creation's present doctrine, for with that body representing a conversation ruled by the religious law, to see it passed away on the tree is to see it giving up Moses' ghost, but to see it not only separated from the tree, but also raised to life again, is to see that same conversation now operating by another mind of service, even by that mind obtaining blessing not "through the law, but through the righteousness of faith," Romans 4:13. Such an illustration preaches the mind's separation from traditional and superstitious religious theories to claim a sobriety for benevolently caring for self, the doctrine of this understanding, and other minds. With our mind liberated from the muck of religious "philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men," Colossians 2:8, we can finally experience His words to retain wisdom to live by. 

This wisdom will help us to lead our best life. The human being is too frail and sensitive to live without a right understanding of its condition. So much eats at us, so much destroys our very beautiful person, so much halts our warm and individual tenderheartedness, because our mind is not healthy. Must such a lovely thinking and feeling organism find its self retarded by vain imaginations? Must we not be who we are because of damaging thoughts? Must we accept a lesser version of our self because of damaging thoughts? Must we continue to harass one another because of an unclean conscience? Not even the living God would have us exist in such an unhealthy estate, for the illustration of His Christ on the tree, and then separated from the tree to become "a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God," Hebrews 2:17, preaches His will for us. 

We are to learn how to possess self for rightly directing self, and the longer we continue to live without true and sincere knowledge of His will and intention, the greater our hardheartedness will be. It is about time that we become creations according to His definition of creation, because we unnecessarily die and abuse self for no good reason. Our assignment is creation's, and does creation abide by some policy invented for it by man? Has a man ever told creation to start and stop winter, only to have winter started or stopped? Has a man ever told creation not to quake, and has that earthquake ever stopped? Has a man ever told the sun not to rise, only to have the sun listen? Has any human ever told the ground not to soak in the rain, only to find that the ground has listened? Man can speak whatever he would to creation, but creation has one operation, even as its Creator says, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease," Genesis 8:22. 

Creation obeys not because it feels manipulated to obey, and not because it feels forced, but because it experienced the living God's will for it, and so finding His thoughts to be in its best interest, creation has continued to love the Spirit that pronounced its liberty. Our faith needs this experience, and it cannot be given to us until our conversation becomes a willing subject of His words. 

We will not always have breath, but like as creation accepted regeneration to fulfill the reason for its birth, so too it is today important that our mind embrace heaven-appointed creation so that we may fulfill the reason for our birth. This life is too short to lend it over to untrue and hurtful thoughts. There is a reason why breath is in our lungs, but we cannot know that reason if we are not willing to replace our current personal and devotional mind with the living God's will and wisdom. Our lives are to portray a clean and peaceful stream of mental and moral liberty, and this task begins within our conversation's conscience, which is why we today have creation's commandment preached to us through the illustration of His Christ on the tree, to the end we may all chase the newness of mind and approach promised to us.