"The Strengthening" -2

Who are you going to call on? Really, do you know? Thinking back to times when I have been against the ropes, I always cried out to God for help, and then I would look for the answers to my problem in someone else; as if God would have the answer that I needed provided by someone that I knew. Okay, maybe that might sound a little strange, but it seemed the natural thing to do; making me and whomever a player in the solving of my problem. To wait upon the Lord, really means, to wait upon the Lord! But how often do we really wait upon the Lord? And for how long? You see, to really wait upon the Lord, we must put all of our trust in Him; which must require us to be still and know that He is God; and (this is the part we do not like), it requires patience in whatever we are dealing with. The only way that we are going to be strengthened in the Lord is be counting on Him for our strength. Much like, the only way to be fit is to work at being fit by working out. However, there is a huge difference in what we see and what we don't see, or even sometimes cannot see. When we work out to be fit, we can see ourselves getting fit; but when we are strengthened by the Lord we may not see ourselves being strengthened, but may in fact see ourselves getting weaker; because when we are weak, then He is strong. So in reality we do not see Him strengthening us, but rather, we see Him more clearly; unfortunately, that is not the answer that we are looking for most of the time to satisfy our particular problem; however, it really is the true answer that we need!!! Okay; in the verse I started with there was the word 'strengtheneth' which Paul used to declare, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me"; the thing about this word is that it is only found in biblical and ecclesiastical grammar, meaning to make strong, in the spiritual and moral sphere. Herein is the problem that we might have with this; because usually the answer that we seek to our problem, is to fix the problem, or to have the problem fixed; however, the Lord's answer is one that takes us away from the problem altogether; in other words, whatever it was that we thought we were faced with is no longer the care that we have; and the only care that we now have, is pleasing Him...