Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, February 17th.

Waiting often seems like a waste of time.

But that's not the case when you're waiting on God.

Here's biblical instruction to help you embrace waiting as a valuable time of discovery.

I was thinking the other day of all the principles I have ever studied and learned in the

Word of God, which one stands above all the rest?

It didn't take me long to figure out that one of those that always comes close to the top,

if not the top, is this simple principle of waiting upon God.

It's not the easiest one by a long shot, but timing with God is everything.

And I think about how many people never even consider the fact that God has a plan for their life. They go to school, they get an

education, they choose some area of life to work in, to labor in, and then they head out with all

their plans. Without ever stopping to think, well, God, what did you create me? What was your purpose?

What was your plan? And therefore, where am I at this point in that plan?

And to ignore God's plan and to ignore his timing in living out that plan is a disaster.

So I want you to turn, if you will, to the 27th Psalm, and I want us to read beginning in verse 11 of this 27th Psalm. David is speaking. He says,

Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a level path because of my foes. Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,

for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. Listen to what he says.

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Wait for the Lord. Be strong and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord. Now, waiting on God

is not what most people think. It doesn't mean that you just do nothing. God may have you

very, very active in what you're doing or where you're doing it or with whom you're doing it.

That's the only part of the plan. Waiting does not mean that you're doing nothing. It doesn't

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