Today's Journal

THE WAITING HEART

“I would have lost heart,
unless I had believed
that I would see the goodness
of the Lord in the land of the living.”
(Psalm 27:13 NKJV)

I’m pretty sure most of us have lost heart over various things that have happened to us. Things like illness, job loss, marriage issues, children issues, money issues, bad investments, lousy church experiences, business failures… and the list gets familiar. David writes, ‘I would have lost heart unless I believed… in the goodness of the Lord.’ That is so difficult to do when we are upside down.

Losing heart is contrasted in the next verse with a strengthened heart. Again, the remedy is certainly no fun:
‘Wait on the Lord.”
“Wait on the Lord;
Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart;
Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (27:14)

Waiting on the Lord to tilt us to right side up from upside down and to give us a ‘strengthened heart’ is simply to show us the Kingdom way verses the other way. To wait on the Lord is often a weight on our faith while we wait.

“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” Jesus