We Wait, He Works

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

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

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 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 7, we wait, he works. From of old, no one has heard or perceived by the ear.
0:10.8	No I has seen a God besides you who works for those who wait for him.
0:19.0	Isaiah 64.4.
0:26.7	Only a few things have gripped me with greater joy than the truth that God loves to show his godness by working for me. And that his working for me is always before and under and in any work that I do for him.
0:43.3	At first, it may sound arrogant of us and belittling to God to say that he works for us.
0:50.3	But that's only because of the connotation that I'm an employer and God needs a job.
0:57.5	That's not the connotation when the Bible talks about God's working for us. That's not at all in
1:04.4	Isaiah's mind when he says, God works for those who wait for him.
1:11.6	Isaiah 64.4.
1:13.4	The proper connotation of saying God works for me
1:17.1	is that I am bankrupt and need a bailout.
1:21.2	I am weak and need someone strong.
1:24.5	I am endangered and need a protector.
1:32.4	I am foolish and need someone wise. I'm lost and need a rescuer. God works for me means I can't do the work. I am utterly in need of help. And this glorifies God, not me.
1:47.0	The giver gets the glory.
1:49.0	The powerful one gets the praise.
1:53.8	Listen to the way the Bible talks about God working for you.
2:01.6	And be freed from the burden of bearing your own load.
2:07.6	Let Him do that work.
2:12.6	One, know I have seen a God besides you
2:16.6	who works for those who wait for him.
2:19.6	Isaiah 64.4.
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