More About Waiting. Waiting is not merely a period of lazy inactivity, of lolling around while keeping one ear half-cocked for God's 150-decibel Words Of Instruction. No, to wait is to continually hold one's self in a still, silent attitude of readiness or expectancy in order to be able to immediately respond to His whisper. It is to continually and diligently seek Him, His Face. It is to place one's self in a hidden, concealed position (the secret place) in order to block out any distractions that may keep you from hearing/seeing his direction for yoour life. It is applying yourself to the pursuit of His Presence. It is seizing every moment to apply truths God has already revealed to your life. It is realizing being weak is the point of greatest strength.

I'm not really sure what I'm getting at. However, I realize that purification/consecration/waiting all hinge on our inadequacy to live the life expected/ordained for us. If I could do it on my own, why would I submit myself to fires that set ablaze every single thing I hold dear to my heart? If I could do it on my own, why would I go through the frustration of not knowing what happens next? Doing things this way hurts! I'm blind, helpless, naked and limping down a very narrow path...What's the point?

Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead...I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of Crist Jesus...for our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is even able to subdue all things to Himself." (Philippians 3:8-11, 14, 20-21)