Wait – Look At My Mouth

We are a restless lot…scurrying about like ants. It’s almost as if we can’t stand still. And even if we do physically…our minds continue racing ahead to the next thing or replaying the last thing…seldom being fully present in a given moment of time. Much of our scurrying is trivial and self-serving. Yet in the midst of the torrent of 21st century life we hear the Creator of time, the timeless, eternal One speaking –

“The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.” Lamentations 3:25-26

So what does it really mean to wait on the LORD? I think the Miskito Indians in Honduras have the answer. In the Miskito language, the infinitive verb for ‘to wait’ is ‘bila kaikaia’. It combines the word ‘mouth’ (bila) and ‘to see’ (kaikaia) so it literally means ‘to look at the mouth’. So when I tell you to wait for me, I say ‘bili kaiks’ which means ‘wait for me’ or ‘look at my mouth.

I picture God speaking to us – ‘Wait on me. Look at my mouth.’ And I now picture me with eyes fixed on Jesus…looking at His mouth…desperate for the Words of Life to come from his lips and fall on my ears! Knowing that nothing is more important!