WAITING ON GOD

The Spirit given at Pentecost was not something that God failed with
in heaven, and sent out of heaven to earth. God does not, cannot,
give away anything in that manner. When He gives grace or strength
or life, He gives it by giving Himself to work it—it is all inseparable
from Himself. Much more so is the Holy Spirit. He is God, present
and working in us. The true position in which we can count upon that
working with an unceasing power is as we, praising for what we
have, still unceasingly wait for the Father's promise to be still more
mightily fulfilled.
What new meaning and promise does this give to our lives of
waiting! It teaches us to continually keep the place where the
disciples tarried at the footstool of the throne. It reminds us that, as
helpless as they were to meet their enemies, or to preach to Christ's
enemies until they were endued with power, we, too, can only be
strong in the life of faith, or the work of love, as we are in direct
communication with God and Christ. They must maintain the life of
the Spirit in us. This assures us that the omnipotent God will,
through the glorified Christ, work in us a power that can bring
unexpected things to pass, impossible things. Oh, what the church
will be able to do when her individual members learn to live their
lives waiting on God—when together, with all of self and the world
sacrificed in the fire of love, they unite in waiting with one accord for
the promise of the Father, once so gloriously fulfilled, but still
unexhausted!
Come and let each of us be still in the presence of the inconceivable
grandeur of this prospect: the Father waiting to fill the church with
the Holy Spirit. And willing to fill me, let each one say.
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