Week 23 - Wait [Rebekah]

Wait.

Two main things pop into my head when I think of the word wait, both of them having to do with music. First of all, the Sons of Korah have a whole album by that name (which I recommend highly, by the way). 

Secondly, this recording of Psalm 130 is the song that starts playing in my head when I think of wait. I will admit that it is not the best quality, recording-wise, amongst all the songs on the Clearnote Songbook. However, the song itself is wonderful. I love the instrumentation of it, and it's ended up being one of my favorite songs by the Good Shepherd Band. 

The song is taken almost word-for-word from Psalm 130. If you're too lazy to listen to it, or flip open a Bible to that chapter, or google "Psalm 130", here it is.

           Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

 But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope;

 my soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.

 O Israel, hope in the Lord!

For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with him is plentiful redemption.

 And he will redeem Israel

from all his iniquities.

There is a wonderful assurance in this particular Psalm that made even more apparent in the recorded song. It is full of hope and faith in God. There's a great humbleness, showing that God is everything and man is nothing. There's a quiet patience and peace, waiting for God's timing while the storms of life rage on. 

Here's wait.