I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning. (Psalms 130:6) (NIV)
Rajkamari was a lithe Indian beauty with clear almond eyes and gleaming hair down to her waist. This godly young lady obediently entered an arranged marriage at age fifteen to a mentally disabled cousin. When I baptized her in Chennai, India, she was in her prime, at age twenty-one, and faced with many years serving a childlike husband.
I guessed that Rajkamari was born into a culture with no other opportunities, so she went limp at her fate. But then, she expressed her inner thoughts.
“I love Billy’s pure, kind heart.”
Rajkamari spoke of her lifetime mate with the gratitude Jesus put inside her. She considered the promises in the Bible, and its commandment to honor her husband, and made the disciplined choice to wait for the Lord.
Rajkamari was neither a defeatist nor a materialist insisting on her way. She was a joyful daughter of the Most High God, set on leaving her future in his hands. She grasped a truth that often eludes me.
Waiting on the Lord is not for those who have no choice, rather it’s the radical path of those who know life is too important to squander on earthly gains. With titanium strong hearts, they trust God when physical senses report nothing but defeat. Only an incorruptible spirit, like Rajkamari, can truly wait on the Lord.
In her temporal life, Rajkamari had little opportunity for education or income. A girl born into her caste was scarcely respected above the family cow. But she seized an opportunity few of us even recognize. She clamped her delicate fingers around God’s promise to reward those who trust him, and she waited.
Prayer: More than the watchman waits for the morning, I wait for you, my King.