Be silent before The Lord and wait expectantly for Him

Psalm 37 (HCSB)
1 Do not be agitated by evildoers; do not envy those who do wrong.  2 For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.  3 Trust in the Lord and do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely.  4 Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desires.  5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act, 6  making your righteousness shine like the dawn, your justice like the noonday.
7 Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him; do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way, by the man who carries out evil plans.  8  Refrain from anger and give up your rage; do not be agitated—it can only bring harm.  9 For evildoers will be destroyed, but those who put their hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him;

One of the things that we do as we come together to pray and focus ourselves for  service to God is to wait on God.  Waiting on God is active, it is participatory.  Waiting on God is a stance of readiness to serve, to receive, to proclaim His worth, and to celebrate the hope of eternity.  Waiting on God is actively surrendering my desires for His.  My desires to be honored, to be in control, to be noticed all must be put down for us to actively and fully wait upon God.

Waiting on God is a lot like the act of concentration.  Consider that we are never more than a thought away from God, and that concentration is a continual returning to a point of thought - again and again and again from every imaginable angle.  Today we actively wait (concentrate) on God, we concentrate on the source and object of our love.  We wait on God the Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth - we wait expectantly for Him.