“Reformation and revival are the result of the fire of God falling from the sky. What is within our power to do (by the grace of God, always) is the arranging of flammable material. As we labor and pray for reformation and revival, in the meantime we should also be splitting and stacking a lot of tamarack, which burns nicely. That is not the same thing as reformation, but it is a nice anticipation of it. Preparing for the fire to fall is not the same thing as the fire falling, but it shows good sense. We pray for the fire to fall, and we want to prepare as though we believe it is going to. But A.W. Tozer once said that. ‘if revival means more of what we have going on now, we most emphatically do not need revival.’ If the fire of God today were to fall on the evangelical church of North America, we would witness a continent-wide Kleenex fire. It wouldn’t last that long, but it would be really something while it lasted.” — Douglas Wilson, Where Was Your Face Before You Washed It?
Worship is waiting and working for the Lord.
“Be sure to have your sail up. Do not miss the gale for want of preparation for it.” — C.H. Spurgeon
Waiting on the Lord is not standing still and working for the Lord is not impatience. We wait on the Lord as a waiter, not as one wasting away in line at the DMV. We work for the Lord as servants, not as usurpers.
Psalms 37:34
Wait on the LORD,
and keep His way.
Keeping the ways of God is the best way to wait for Him.
Patience is persevering in plowing while you wait in hope for the harvest.
We must keep the altar ready as we wait for the fire to fall.
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