Q. What does it mean to 'wait' on God (Psalm 5:3)
A. Psalm 5:3 – “In the morning I will order my prayer to you and eagerly watch.” The process David describes is two-fold 1) Prayer 2) Watch / wait. These two can’t be divorced. It is not sufficient to merely ‘wait’. It is an active waiting which is in subsequence to prayer requests being made. In the case described in Psalm 5, David’s enemies are again present and he calls to the LORD for them to receive justice (Psalm 5:10) and himself to receive protection (Psalm 5:11) acknowledging that it is the LORD who is his ‘shield’. Kidner says “The very integrity of the Judge, which would be David’s undoing if he were under rigorous moral scrutiny, is his refuge under wrongful attack. This emerges openly in Psalm 143:2, where David the plaintiff (as he is in the present psalm) pauses to acknowledge that if God were to try his character instead of his case, he would be undone.”
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