Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 14th.

Are you on the verge of making an important decision?

Before you ignore God's directives, let's consider the ramifications carefully and avoid those consequences.

Our series, When It is Wise to Wait, continues. Wait for the Lord, be strong,

and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord. Now, to some people, that may be a

strange idea. What do you mean, wait for the Lord? Why should you have to wait on God? Is God ever late? Indeed, he's not.

Then what in the world do you mean by waiting upon the Lord? Well, what we mean is simply this.

To wait means to pause and wait for further instructions. When a person is waiting upon the

Lord, what they're doing is remaining in their present circumstance,

remaining in their present position, and waiting for further instruction from God.

Lord, what do I do next? What is the next move? This does not mean that you do nothing.

It does not mean that you're just sort of passively sitting around

doing nothing, waiting for the Lord. Because waiting for the Lord is not passive, but it is an

activity. That is, it is active. It is quiet activity. We wait by remaining where we are,

doing what God says do, to the best of our ability until God intervenes

in that situation and changes it, or intervenes and says, now, here's what I want you to do now.

People who say, well, you know, I don't like my job. I'm just going to quit and wait on God.

Well, I want to tell you,

I'm not going to say that God would never tell anybody to quit and wait upon him, but most of the time, waiting involves doing what I'm doing to the best of my ability, right where I am with

all of my heart until God says, move here, move there, move over yonder.

Usually he's going to move you from what you're doing to something else he wants you to do

that is actively waiting upon God and waiting for his direction.

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