Article July 1, 1961 Issue

"Wait, I say, on the Lord"

LEONARD T. CARNEY

"Waiting on God requires an active rather than a passive attitude of thought"

In writing these words, "Wait, I say, on the Lord," the Psalmist must have had the true sense of waiting in mind, for the sentiment closes a most illuminating psalm, the twenty-seventh, which begins, "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?" The deeper meaning of the word "wait" is "to look (mentally); to be in expectation"; and "to wait on" as used in the Bible is to place one's hope in God with expectation. The inspired pages of the Bible abound in expressions which indicate the existence of a presence and power upon which we are bidden to wait, greater than any human power, adequate for every need.

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