[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0816":3},"AUGUST 16\r\nIn waiting, I waited, for the Lord (Psalm 40:1, margin),\r\nWaiting is much more difficult than walking. Waiting requires patience, and patience is a rare virtue. It is fine to know that\r\nGod builds hedges around His people-when the hedge is looked at\r\n\r\nfrom the view point of protection. But when the hedge is kept\r\naround one until it grows so high that he cannot see over the top, and wonders whether he is ever to get out of the little sphere of    influence and service in which he is pent up, it is hard for him\r\nsometimes to understand why he may not have a larger\r\nenvironment-hard for him to \"brighten the comer\" where he is. But\r\nGod has a purpose in all HIS holdups. \"The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord,\" reads Psalm 37:23.\r\nOn the margin of his Bible at this verse George Mueller had a\r\nnotation, \"And the stops also.\" It is a sad mistake for men to\r\nbreak through God's hedges. It is a vital principle of guidance for   a Christian never to move out of the place in which he is sure God has placed him, until the Pillar of Cloud moves.\r\n--Sunday School Times.\r\nWhen we learn to wait for our Lord's lead in everything, we shall know the strength that finds its climax in an even, steady walk.\r\nMany of us are lacking in the strength we so covet But God gives full power for every task He appoints. Waiting, holding oneself\r\ntrue to His lead-this is the secret of strength. And anything that   falls out of the line of obedience is a waste of time and strength. Watch for His leading. --S. D. Gordon.\r\nMust life be a failure for one compelled to stand still in enforced inaction and see the great throbbing tides of life go by? No;\r\nvictory is then to be gotten by standing still, by quiet waiting.\r\nIt is a thousand times harder to do this than it was in the active days to rush on in the columns of stirring life. It requires a\r\ngrander heroism to stand and wait and not lose heart and not lose hope, to submit to the will of God, to give up work and honors to\r\nothers, to be quiet confident and rejoicing, while the happy, busy multitude go on and away. It is the grandest fife \"having done all, to stand.\"\r\n--J.R. Miller.",1783499793304]