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 From Streams in the Desert  By Charles Cowan

(1) How To Wait

"Blessed is he that waiteth" (Dan. 12:12).

It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one

of the postures which a Christian soldier learns

not without years of teaching. Marching and

quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors

than standing still.

There are hours of perplexity when the most

willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the

Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what

shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in

cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or

rush forward in presumption?

No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however.

Call upon God and spread the case before Him;

tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise

of aid.

Wait in faith. Express your unstaggering

confidence in Him. Believe that if He keep you

tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at

the right time; the vision shall come, and shall

not tarry.

Wait in quiet patience. Never murmur against the

second cause, as the children of Israel did

against Moses. Accept the case as it is, and put

it as it stands, simply and with your whole

heart, without any self-will, into the hand of

your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my

will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I

am brought to extremities; but I will wait until

Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my

foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day,

for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and

my spirit waiteth for Thee in full conviction

that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my

refuge and my strong tower." --Morning by Morning

Wait patiently wait, 

God never is late; 

Thy budding plans are in Thy Father's holding, 

And only wait His grand divine unfolding. 

Then wait, wait, 

Patiently wait.

Trust, hopefully trust, 

That God will adjust 

Thy tangled life; and from its dark concealings, 

Will bring His will, in all its bright

revealings. 

Then trust, trust, 

Hopefully trust.

Rest, peacefully rest 

On thy Saviour's breast; 

Breathe in His ear thy sacred high ambition, 

And He will bring it forth in blest fruition.

Then rest, rest,

Peacefully rest! --Mercy A. Gladwin