Confident patience
by Pastor Tim Klein
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I patiently waited, Lord, for you to hear my prayer (Psalm 40:1).
Here at the end of another week, seven days of life with all its up and down experiences, and here as a new week waits for us with all its events, planned and unknown, we can rest with confidence and patience in the Lord.
Do you hear the boldness and confidence of the young King David here? During his early years, he faced all sorts of challenges and dangers as his reign was established.
While David was certainly a man of action, he was, nevertheless, a man of patience. Even as he waited on the Lord, he was able to look back, see and remember the amazing things that the Lord had done. He tells us how the Lord rescued him from that lonely muddy, miry pit and raised him up onto a firm foundation.
He also looked ahead with confidence and patience – for the promises of the Lord to unfold. Ready to be obedient to the Lord: ‘I am here to do what is written about me in the book, where it says, “I enjoy pleasing you. Your law is in my heart”’ (Psalm 40:7,8).
Let us allow the Lord to use David and his life – his confident and patient faith – to encourage us in our lives. We might not have the same level of authority or influence, but we, too, are created by God with purpose. We all need to pray with such confidence and patience in the Lord.
He has plans for your life and mine. He will journey with us, never leaving or forsaking us. We can pray and live with full confidence in the Lord. Lord, into your hands, I commit myself, my life, and all that I am.
Lord of our days, Lord of yesterday,
Lord, our Lord, forever, your people we are.
Lord of our days, Lord of yesterday,
Lord, our Lord, forever, your people we are.
From many pasts you fashion one history,
a people of God created to hold
for all [humankind] the myst’ry of faith.
Lord of our days, your people we are.
(© 1976 Neil Quintrell)
Tim is the husband of the lovely Joylene, father of three and their spouses, and Pa to nine grandchildren. Tim loves family time. He also loves family time with his faith family at Faith Warradale, where he has served as the pastor for eight years. He has served as a pastor of the church in various capacities for more than 30 years. Tim also enjoys photography, pushbike riding and gardening and is a self-taught guitarist, Adelaide Conservatorium-trained singer, and writer of an occasional song. Tim says he looks forward to a couple more years as a full-time pastor and is open to where the Lord would use him beyond that.
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