「你當在耶和華面前靜默，耐心等候祂」－詩篇37:7
你是否在有些事上，禱告了又禱告，等待了再等待，卻一點也沒有結果呢？
你是否因沒有看見任何動靜而厭倦了？你正索性放棄禱告了嗎？或懷疑自己沒有以正確的方式禱告呢？
然而這些想法都會使你遠離正路，使你遠離神的面光。
「忍耐著熱切等待」－羅馬書8:25忍耐能將掛慮和擔憂挪去。祂說祂會來，而祂的應許就是祂的顯現。
忍耐能將哀哭除去。何必沮喪呢？祂比你更深知你的需要，祂的旨意是藉著你的忍耐以成就祂的榮耀。
忍耐能除去徒然的工作。使主喜悅的工作乃是你的信（約翰福音6.29），當你相信時，你就知道神已經成就一切了。
忍耐取去所有的慾望。因為我們所想要的常常和神的心意不一致。
忍耐挪去一切軟弱。忍耐不是無謂的讓時間過去，乃是曉得神為你預備了更充足的供應，也預備你將承受這些供應。
忍耐除去飄盪不定。「扶我站在原地」（但以理書8:18）神穩固的根基已經立定了，我們若以基督的忍耐來忍耐，我們必不致動搖。
忍耐帶來讚美。一面忍耐，一面讚美，「歡歡喜喜的忍耐寬容」（歌羅西書1:11）這是神最喜悅的忍耐。你若這樣忍耐，你就要得著豐盛的恩典。
"Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him" (Ps. 37:7).Have you prayed and prayed and waited and waited, and still there is no manifestation?
Are you tired of seeing nothing move? Are you just at the point of giving it all up? Perhaps you have not waited in the right way? This would take you out of the right place the place where He can meet you.
"With patience wait" (Rom. 8:25). Patience takes away worry. He said He would come, and His promise is equal to His presence. Patience takes away your weeping. Why feel sad and despondent? He knows your need better than you do, and His purpose in waiting is to bring more glory out of it all. Patience takes away self-works. The work He desires is that you "believe" (John 6:29), and when you believe, you may then know that all is well. Patience takes away all want. Your desire for the thing you wish is perhaps stronger than your desire for the will of God to be fulfilled in its arrival.
Patience takes away all weakening. Instead of having the delaying time, a time of letting go, know that God is getting a larger supply ready and must get you ready too. Patience takes away all wobbling. "Make me stand upon my standing" (Daniel 8:18, margin). God's foundations are steady; and when His patience is within, we are steady while we wait. Patience gives worship. A praiseful patience sometimes "long-suffering with joyfulness" (Col. 1:11) is the best part of it all. "Let (all these phases of) patience have her perfect work" (James 1:4), while you wait, and you will find great enrichment. --C. H. P.
