Article January 2, 1960 Issue

"WAIT ON THE LORD"

W. A. GIBSON MARTIN

The Psalmist exhorted (Ps. 27: 14), "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord." Among the dictionary definitions of "wait" are "to look (mentally); to be in expectation; ... to stay or remain in readiness for action." The application of these definitions to the twenty-seventh Psalm makes the meaning much clearer.

There is another kind of waiting, which is indicated in a wait-and-see attitude. While conditions may at times involve a temporary halt before the arrival of an occasion suitable for action, yet during such a pause Christian Scientists must beware of mere passive waiting, which often amounts to lethargy and mental unpreparedness.

Christian Science reveals God as omniactive. It follows, then, that man as God's image must be always in action. When we are waiting, therefore, our activity should take the form of looking expectantly to the divine source of all action and of being alert and prepared to follow Truth's leading. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy gently assures us (p. 254), "When we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path."

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