Someone may confuse true waiting on God (in living, direct communication with the Living One) and wholehearted devotion to Him with the slothful, helpless waiting that excuses oneself from all work until God, by some special impulse, has made work easy. Another may wait on God more truly, regarding it as one of the highest exercises of the Christian life, but never understand that
at the root of all true waiting must lie the surrender and the readiness to be equipped for God’s use in the service of men. And still another may be ready to work as well as wait, but is looking for some great, overpowering inflow of the Spirit’s power to enable him to do mighty works. He forgets that more
grace is only given to those who are faithful in the little; it is only in working that we can be taught by the Spirit how to do the greater works.
Andrew Murray, Working for God
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