One sows seed, another waters, but only God gives the increase.

If the Christian churches throughout the centuries had ceased from their own plans, had instead waited constantly before the Lord and had sown the good Seed only as He directed, the history of the Church would have been totally different. There would be no Catholic Church and no Protestant denominations.

There would have been no torture and murder of "heretics." There would have been no involvement in the politics of Europe. There would be none of the present errors, such as the attempt to use Divine grace to cover sinful behavior, the overemphasis on the love of God and rejection of the severity of God, the persecution of the Jews, or the current attempt to force Christian morality on the secular populace.

There would be no competition between denominations or local churches. There would be no believers remaining spiritual babies after fifty years of church attendance.

The Lord is looking today for people who will cease from their own plans and ambitions, who are willing to consecrate themselves to the work of the Lord; people who will pray consistently; people who will not make a major move until they know God has spoken.

Where are those who, like the Lord Jesus and the Apostle Paul, will refuse to allow their desire for self-glorification to move them during their ministry, who will wait, wait, wait on the Lord for every move they make? Who will faithfully obey the Lord without adding to His directives? If God can find one person who will faithfully obey the Lord without adding to the Lord's directions, without "putting his hands on the Ark," then things will become possible in the Kingdom of God that otherwise will never come to pass.

Heaven and earth are waiting for someone to believe and obey God. Belief and obedience are the proper response for someone seeking to enter the rest of God.

O that we all would wait on the Lord! How many people throughout history have ceased from their own works and labored to enter the rest of God? Perhaps not many but undoubtedly some noteworthy believers in God.

Every true leader hears directly from God. The man of God has his burning bush.

Hebrews Chapters Three and Four teach us concerning belief and obedience and of the rest of God. Belief and obedience are true faith and bring us into the rest of God. As we seek to follow God every motive of our personality is revealed for what it is so we can detect the spirit of the world, lust, Satan, and self-glorification.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

Our problems (if we respond to them correctly) cause the Word of God to keep cutting deeper into our motivations until Christ alone rules. The Lord alone shall be exalted in that Day!

O that we would move from Adam to Christ! O that we would wait, wait, wait on the Lord! (from From Adam to Christ)