WAITING ON GOD

sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ" (Rom. 6:11), "blessed...
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Eph. 1:3).
Our waiting on God may now be in the wonderful consciousness
maintained by the Holy Spirit within us, that we are accepted in the
Beloved, that the love that rests on Him rests on us, that we are living
in that love, in the very nearness and presence and sight of God.
The old saints took their stand on the Word of God, and waiting,
hoping on that Word, we rest on the Word, too—but, oh, under what
exceedingly greater privileges, as one with Christ Jesus! In our
waiting on God, let this be our confidence: in Christ we have access to
the Father. How sure, therefore, we may be that our waiting cannot
be in vain.
Our waiting differs, too, in this, that while they waited for a
redemption to come, we see it accomplished and now wait for its
revelation in us. Christ not only said, "Abide in me" (John 15:4), but
also "I in you" (v. 4). The Epistles not only speak of us in Christ, but of
Christ in us, as the highest mystery of redeeming love. As we
maintain our place in Christ day by day, God waits to reveal Christ in
us in such a way that He is formed in us, that His mind and
disposition and likeness acquire form and substance in us, so that by
each it can in truth be said, "Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20).
My life in Christ up there in heaven and Christ's life in me down here
on earth—these two are the complement of each other. And, the
more my waiting on God is marked by the living faith, I in Christ, the
more the heart thirsts for and claims the Christ in me. The waiting
on God, which began with special needs and prayer, will increasingly
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