Lent Devotion | Day 24
How much of our lives are spent waiting? Waiting in traffic, waiting for spring, waiting for a text, waiting for answers, waiting on medical results, waiting for an answer to prayer. To wait in the sense mentioned here is to live expectantly, with an awareness of how God has acted in the past and with anticipation of what God is about to do.
Waiting is thus the opposite of despair and hopelessness. Waiting for the Lord is like the work of the anxious watchman on the city wall who, fearing the attack of an enemy, finds relief in the arrival of dawn. The certainty of the coming light makes clear that the waiting is not delusional or unrealistic.
If you feel like God will never show up, read this Psalm each morning. Let it become familiar, like an old friend. Slowly, hope and trust in God will gradually return.
Life is full of waiting, but God does not disappoint. God’s love and presence in our lives is deeper than we can imagine.
Learn to wait with longing, anticipation, expectation, and yes, hope.
