"Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord" (Exod. 14:13).

Waiting is the hardest of all commands of the Lord!  Yet, it is a COMMAND!  I have heard it said that living with the Lord is about waiting and running.  He has you wait and wait and then you have to run to keep up with Him.  People don’t wait well.  Moses left the congregation under the oversight of Aaron while he went up the mountain to "wait on The Word from God." 

The people became anxious and Aaron yielded to their faithless suggestions and gave them "a word, a direction, a vision of sorts."  The waiting period may be our greatest of all tests. The two great tests of waiting is silence and faithless words. We cannot make the answer come sooner.  We may fabricate an answer but at best it will only be an imitation of the real thing.  We might even convince everyone around us that this "answer" is the word from the Lord.  When the answer, the Word of the Lord does arrive, and it will arrive, the imitation will be ground to powder.  We must wait! Faith must wait!

Then, in the timing of the Lord we will see the "salvation of the Lord!"

"Stand still"--keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward.'

—Charles Spurgeon