「我要...交給你，你要...得他的地為業。」－申命記 2:31
聖經中常提到要等候神，這的確是個需要一再強調的題目。
我們很容易對神的延遲感到不耐煩，我們的麻煩常在於我們無法等候，我們總是焦躁魯莽。我們無法等待瓜熟蒂落，我們總是在果子仍然青綠時，就想將它擊落。
我們盼望禱告立刻得答應，卻不知道神花多年的時間來回應我們的禱告，是為了預備我們。神盼望我們與祂同行，但祂常漫步徐行。
不過，除了等候神，我們需要看見這個功課的另外一面：神也常常在等候我們。
神的應許常是帶著附加條件的。當我們願意順從，神就開始祝福。神應許亞伯拉罕許多的事，但若他仍留在迦勒底，就沒有一事能得成就。他需要離開本族父家，走上一條未知的道路，走上一條順從至死的道路，直到一切的應許都得應驗。
當以色列人在紅海前面對追兵時，他們需要聽從神的命令：「往前走。」那時，他們的責任便不再是等待，而是聽命起身，走上他們信心的旅程。在橫過洶湧的約旦河時，神要求他們再一次的信祂能立水為壘，使他們安然度過。
打開應許之地大門的鑰匙，已經握在他們手中了，而這把鑰匙就是信心。
在許多情況裡，我們也需要爭戰。我們常自暴自棄的說，我們無法打敗敵人，我們無法獲勝；但當我們進入戰場時，會發現有一位會和我們並肩作戰，靠著祂，我們能得勝有餘。若我們不願打仗，反而一動也不動地僵立在戰場，等候我們的幫助者，我們將必空等。
如此過度的等候是不信的表現。神正等著將祂滿滿的祝福從天傾下，只等你憑信大膽往前，取得那屬於你的一切：「我要...交給你，你要...得他的的為業。」（申命記 2:31）－密勒
"I have begun to give;?begin to possess" (Deut. 2:31).A great deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God's delays. Much of our trouble in life comes out of our restless, sometimes reckless, haste. We cannot wait for the fruit to ripen, but insist on plucking it while it is green. We cannot wait for the answers to our prayers, although the things we ask for may require long years in their preparation for us. We are exhorted to walk with God; but ofttimes God walks very slowly. But there is another phase of the lesson. God often waits for us.
We fail many times to receive the blessing He has ready for us, because we do not go forward with Him. While we miss much good through not waiting for God, we also miss much through over-waiting. There are times when our strength is to sit still, but there are also times when we are to go forward with a firm step.
There are many Divine promises which are conditioned upon the beginning of some action on our part. When we begin to obey, God will begin to bless us. Great things were promised to Abraham, but not one of them could have been obtained by waiting in Chaldea. He must leave home, friends, and country, and go out into unknown paths and press on in unfaltering obedience in order to receive the promises. The ten lepers were told to show themselves to the priest, and "as they went they were cleansed." If they had waited to see the cleansing come in their flesh before they would start, they would never have seen it. God was waiting to cleanse them; and the moment their faith began to work, the blessing came.
When the Israelites were shut in by a pursuing army at the Red Sea, they were commanded to "Go forward." Their duty was no longer one of waiting, but of rising up from bended knees and going forward in the way of heroic faith. They were commanded to show their faith at another time by beginning their march over the Jordan while the river ran to its widest banks. The key to unlock the gate into the Land of Promise they held in their own hands, and the gate would not turn on its hinges until they had approached it and unlocked it. That key was faith. We are set to fight certain battles. We say we can never be victorious; that we never can conquer these enemies; but, as we enter the conflict, One comes and fights by our side, and through Him we are more than conquerors. If we had waited, trembling and fearing, for our Helper to come before we would join the battle, we should have waited in vain. This would have been the over-waiting of unbelief. God is waiting to pour richest blessings upon you. Press forward with bold confidence and take what is yours. "I have begun to give, begin to possess." --J. R. Miller
