We Wait, He Works

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let God do that work. God loves to show his God-ness by working for us.

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0:00.0	October 7th, we wait. He works. From a old, no one has heard or perceived by the ear.
0:10.8	No eye has seen a God besides you who works for those who wait for him, as they are 64-4.
0:22.1	Only a few things have gripped me with greater joy than the truth that God
0:29.4	loves to show his Godness by working for me, and that his working for me is always before and
0:39.2	under and in any work that I do for him. At first, it may sound arrogant of us and belittling to
0:48.0	God to say that he works for us, but that's only because of the connotation that I'm an employer
0:55.1	and God needs a job. That's not the connotation when the Bible talks about God's working for us.
1:02.8	That's not at all in Isaiah's mind when he says God works for those who wait for him,
1:11.5	Isaiah 64-4. The proper connotation of saying God works for me is that I am bankrupt and need a bailout.
1:21.3	I am weak and need someone strong. I am endangered and need a protector. I am foolish and need
1:28.9	someone wise. I'm lost and need a rescuer. God works for me means I can't do the work.
1:38.9	I am utterly in need of help. And this glorifies God, not me. The giver gets the glory.
1:49.4	The powerful one gets the praise. Listen to the way the Bible talks about God working for you.
2:02.1	And be freed from the burden of bearing your own load. Let him do that work. One,
2:13.9	know I have seen a God beside you who works for those who wait for him. Isaiah 64-4.
2:21.6	Two, God is not served by human hands as though he needed anything since he himself gives to all mankind
2:30.4	life and breath and everything. Acts 17-25. Three, the son of man came not to be served,
2:41.8	but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Mark 10-45. Four, the eyes of the Lord run
2:52.6	to and fro throughout the whole earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward
3:00.9	him. Second Chronicles 16-9. Five, if I were hungry, I would not tell you, call upon me in the day of
3:10.6	trouble. And I will deliver you and you shall glorify me some 50, 12 and 15. Six, to your old age,
3:23.8	I will carry you. I have made and I will bear. I will carry and will save Isaiah 46-4.
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