Feed on God's faithfulness

You might be familiar with quite a few verses in Psalm 37. You might even have your favorites like verse 4

Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart

Today you might be looking around only to find other people flourish, whereas you've been waiting on the Lord and seemingly everything is at standstill from your vantage point. Psalm 37 encourages us to see the permanent and final work that God is doing in our lives and how we can bring them forth in our lives.

Lessons

1. Feed on God's faithfulness - v3 says "Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness" . Here befriend also means to feed on or find safe pasture in God's faithfulness. In God our Loving Father we find stability. Change is good for growth, but we should be wary of inconsistency. Inconsistency is not growth, it breaks faith, causes worry because we never know what the outcome might be. However in God, Who is the same yesterday today and forever, we can find that rest (dwell in).

2. Commit your way to the Lord v4, 5 - "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act". When you focus and feed on God, Who is faithful, you can rest assured that when you've committed something in His hands, He WILL ACT! He takes His responsibility as your Heavenly Father, very very seriously. So much so that He gave His one and only begotten Son, for the world.(John 3:16) So then "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things" .

3. Stay in God's way, as you wait on Him - v34 "Wait for the Lord and keep his way" So what should we do as we wait, v7 onwards it says fret not. Fret means being constantly or visibly worried or anxious. Every time we look around and lose our focus, we begin to worry. Psalm 37 encourages us to not get angry(v8), turn away from evil and do good(v27). Just keep staying your course, for God is at work on your behalf.

4. God will exalt you to inherit the land - The phrase inherit the land occurs 5 times in this chapter, God must have been putting great emphasis on this.

1.  v9 those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. 
2.  v11 the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace,  
3. v22 for those blessed by the Lord[c] shall inherit the land
4. v29 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever. 
5. v34 Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land;

To me inherit the land means, we no longer have to wander or move. Not restless. No longer wondering where we may have to travel. It means settled. It speaks of permanence and stability. This reminds me of the verse in Ephesians 4:14 "so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes."  In the New Covenant God has given to us provided every means to enable us to be stable and grow in stature as a child of God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Conclusion

No matter what we are waiting on God to do on our behalf, let us feed on His faithfulness. God has not left one stone unturned to bring His Salvation to you. What makes you wonder He would do anything less for you in the circumstance you're in?
Let this verse encourage you as you wait upon the Lord and do good, that you may prosper as you feed on God's faithfulness Who cares about your physical well being as much as He does your spiritual well being!

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 3 John 1:2