Day 6—For All Saints

Psalm 25:3 - Indeed, none who wait for You shall be put to shame…

Just think for a moment of the multitude of waiting ones who need this prayer. How many there are, sick and weary and solitary, to whom it is as if their prayers are not answered, and who sometimes begin to fear their hope will be put to shame. How many servants of God, ministers or missionaries, teachers or workers, whose hopes in their work have been disappointed, and whose longing for power and blessing remains unsatisfied. How many, who have heard of a life of rest and perfect peace, of abiding light and fellowship, of strength and victory, and who cannot find the path. They just need what we all need, the living assurance that waiting on God can never be in vain.

If this intercession for all who wait on God becomes part of our waiting on Him for ourselves, we help to bear each other's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. There will be introduced into our waiting on God the element of unselfishness and love, which is the path to the highest blessing and the fullest communion with God. Love to the brethren and love to God are inseparably linked. "That the love wherewith You hast loved Me, may be in them." "As the Father loved me, so have I loved you." "As I have loved you, that you love one another." All the love of God, and of Christ, are inseparably linked with love to the brethren. And how can we, day by day, prove and cultivate this love otherwise than by daily praying for each other? Christ did not seek to enjoy the Father's love for Himself; He passed it all on to us. All true seeking of God and His love for ourselves will be inseparably linked with the thought and the love of our brethren in prayer for them.


Twice in the psalm David speaks of his waiting on God for himself; here he thinks of all who wait on Him. Let this page inspire us all with new courage—for who is there who is not at times ready to faint and be weary? "Let none that wait on Thee be ashamed" is a promise in a prayer, "They that wait on Thee shall not be ashamed!" From many a witness the cry comes to everyone who needs the help, "Wait on the LORD. Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you that wait on the LORD."

Blessed Father! We humbly beseech You, let none that wait on Thee be ashamed; no, not one. Some are weary, and the time of waiting appears long. And some are feeble, and scarcely know how to wait. And some are so entangled in the effort of their prayers and their work, they think that they can find no time to wait continually. Father, teach us all how to wait. Teach us to think of each other, and pray for each other. Teach us to think of You, the God of all waiting ones. Father! Let none that wait on You be ashamed. For Jesus' sake. Amen.

"My soul, wait only upon God!"