Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 123:2

Today's Favorite Verse: Psalms 123:2

"Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us."

I pondered on what it means to "wait upon the Lord". To me it means to have patience for His timing. To move when the spirit says its the right time to do so. To stand near by waiting for that call. It's always waiting to #HearHim.

While we are waiting we are not twiddling our thumbs. As a good servant we are always watching and doing that which needs to be done without being told. We continue to learn and growth, ponder and prepare so we are ready to proceed when mercy comes and we seek to do according to His will.

While I pondered and reasoned what I thought it meant, I decided to follow up and see what others have said about it. I liked this talk given by Elder Hales.

"What, then, does it mean to wait upon the Lord? In the scriptures, the word wait means to hope, to anticipate, and to trust. To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments, and enduring to the end.

To wait upon the Lord means planting the seed of faith and nourishing it “with great diligence, and … patience.”

It means praying as the Savior did—to God, our Heavenly Father—saying: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.” It is a prayer we offer with our whole souls in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Waiting upon the Lord means pondering in our hearts and “receiv[ing] the Holy Ghost” so that we can know “all things what [we] should do.” As we follow the promptings of the Spirit, we discover that “tribulation worketh patience” and we learn to “continue in patience until [we] are perfected.”

Waiting upon the Lord means to “stand fast” and “press forward” in faith, “having a perfect brightness of hope.”

It means “relying alone upon the merits of Christ” and “with [His] grace assisting [us, saying]: Thy will be done, O Lord, and not ours.”

As we wait upon the Lord, we are “immovable in keeping the commandments,” knowing that we will “one day rest from all [our] afflictions.”

And we “cast not away … [our] confidence” that “all things wherewith [we] have been afflicted shall work together for [our] good.”

(Robert D. Hales, "Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done", Oct 1971 General Conference)

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