At The Foot Of The Cross

This summer God has been doing a major work in my heart. Dealing with some bitterness which has lead to forgiveness (which among the body of Christ is an extremely beautiful thing to be apart of, something I had missed out on for years), and dealing with conviction of motives and just seeing the ugliness of the sin of my flesh in a light that I had never seen before in my 25 years so far. (God is a God of new and of old!) This has been a very revealing summer for me, as well as a healing, redeeming and sanctifying summer. I am more than grateful to God for the many lessons and emotions and convictions and actions that have all taken place because I know they are all apart of making me more like Christ.
 Through all of this I have noticed that the Holy Spirit has just brought me to the foot of the Cross. The gospel and the act that Jesus did on the Cross mean more to my heart than they ever have before. And I am again, grateful for this. My love feels like its growing deeper, my appreciation feels deeper, my worship feels deeper...everything just feels deeper and more real to me when it comes to The Gospel, and the Cross.

Among all of this, I came across this poem in a book that I have been reading and I really wanted to share it with you, the readers, and my prayer is that it encourages you to WAIT on the LORD. In whatever season you are in, whatever answers you are waiting on, God is all that You need and He has a purpose and just go to the Cross, lean on Him, the one who knows Your heart and the one who longs to be with you more than anyone else on this earth ever could!

The poem is called "WAIT" by Russel Kelfer

  Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried:

Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.

I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,

And the Master so gently  said,

"Child, you must wait."

"Wait? You say, wait!" my indignant reply.

"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!

Is Your hand shortened? Or have You not heard?

By faith, I have asked, and am claiming Your Word.

"My future and all to which I can relate

Hangs in the balance, and You tell me to WAIT?

I'm needing a 'Yes,' a go-ahead sign,

Or even a 'No,' to which I can resign.

"And Lord, You promised that if we believe

We need but to ask, and we shall receive

And, Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:

'I'm weary of asking! I need a reply!'"

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate

As my Master replied once again, "You must wait."

So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut

And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting...for what?"

He seemed, then, to kneel

And His eyes wept with mine,

And He tenderly said, 'I could give you a sign.

I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.

I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.

"All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.

You would have what you want---

But, you wouldn't know Me.

You'd not know the depth of My love for each saint;

You'd not know the power I give to the faint;

"You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;

You'd not learn to trust just by knowing  I'm there;

"You'd not know the joy of resting in Me;

When darkness and silence were all you could see.

"You'd never experience that fullness of love

As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;

You'd know that I give and I save, for a start,

But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

"The glow of My comfort late into the night,

The faith that I give when you walk without sight,

The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked

Of an infinite God, who makes what you have last.

"You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,

What it means that, 'My grace is sufficient for thee,'

Yes, your dreams for your loved one overnight would come true,

But, oh, the loss if I lost what I'm doing in you!

"So, be silent, My child, and in time you will see

That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.

And though oft' may My answers seem terribly late,

My most precious answer of all is still, 'Wait.'"