Wait ! Wait!

First apologies, all those promises to blog and then nothing, in my defense my computer went awol and has only recently just returned.

What has happened in the interim well I have been lingering around the word 'wait'. One of those favourite OT words you know the ones "they that wait.... or "wait before the Lord..." the ones that people who find themselves tired, haggard or just frayed around the edges like to read from time to time. Well apparently the word "wait" in those contexts means do 'absolutely nothing' can you believe that.

I have been thinking about why the Bible would advise us to "do nothing..!" Could it be another way of giving ourselves an ego check, another way of telling us that the world does not need more of us but less of us and more of God. That you do not need more of you, but less of you and more of God. For example maybe instead of reading more, we should read less ! instead of doing more, do less! I mean ask yourself do we advance more in the Christian life by "doing more...reading more...etc". Do you get to know God better by being more competent, more knowledgeable, more busy?

Is this use of the word 'wait' a way of telling us that with God it is less about the task and more about the relationship less about the knowledge and more about the knowing? How do we grow in a relationship? How do you have more to share with others about the person you know and love?
Just some thoughts, not some prescriptions though.