WAITING ON GOD

III.

_Psalms 62: 5_.--_My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is
from Him_.


The solemn question comes to us, "Is the God I have, a God that is to
me above all circumstances, nearer to me than any circumstance can be?"
Brother, have you learned to live your life having God so really with you
every moment, that in circumstances the most difficult He is always more
present and nearer than anything around you? All our knowledge of God's
Word will help us very little, unless that comes to be the question to
which we get an answer.

What can be the reason that so many of God's beloved children complain
continually: "My circumstances separate me from God; my trials, my
temptations, my character, my temper, my friends, my enemies, anything can
come between my God and me?" Is God not able so to take possession that He
can be nearer to me than anything in the world? Must riches or poverty, joy
or sorrow, have a power over me that my God has not? No. But why, then, do
God's children so often complain that their circumstances separate them
from Him? There can be but one answer, "They do not know their God." If
there is trouble or feebleness in the Church of God, it is because of this.
We do not know the God we have. That is why in addition to the promise, "I
will be thy God," the promise is so often added, "And ye shall know that I