Waiting on the Lord

All throughout the Scripture we are encouraged to “wait on the Lord”. We are promised that when we do this we will receive strength, wisdom, comfort, help and much more.


But what does it mean to actually “wait on the Lord”? What are we to wait for? And once we have received the reward of waiting, what do we do next? I believe that Lamentations 3:25-26 provides us some of the answers we need. Here the Scripture says, “The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.” The key things we should be waiting on the Lord for are:

• Hope that is rooted in God’s goodness. Can we actually says that we walk into each day with full of hope because of the reality of God’s goodness. The best way to ensure that we do this is to remember all the good that God has provided in the past…and this takes time. However, when we have invested the time in remembering these good things we can face any situation knowing the hope that springs from knowing the fullness of God’s goodness. This actually leads us to the second thing we should be waiting for.
• The ultimate demonstration of God’s goodness in found in the act of salvation. Yet here, salvation is not only referring to the state of our soul, God wants to be the source of salvation—deliverance, recovery, and rescue for every situation we face. If we wait until we understand the goodness of God in a fresh way in each situation we will be able to face each day with a renewed energy and confidence. An energy and confidence that come from God alone.

  
May we all learn to once again wait on the Lord until His goodness floods every part of what we say and do so much that He is all people see and hear.