Hope and Wait

Today I read Lamentations 3:19-4:15 and Hebrews 11:7-27. My favorite verses are:

Lamentations 3:25-26 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Is there any one of God’s children who does not want to receive good from His hand? I think we all want good things. We are told plainly how to make that happen—wait for Him and seek Him. I talked at some length about waiting on the Lord when I read Isaiah 40. We are to wait like a waiter or waitress waiting on tables—busy all the time meeting needs. We seek to know what God wants us to do, and we do it. We hope with confidence that God is busy fulfilling that which we hope for, and we wait quietly for Him—we don’t whine and complain and try to make things happen in our own strength because we think God’s way is taking too long. In waiting on and working for the Lord, we must have a vision that reaches farther than this life; we need to have an eternal view. We look forward to the time that we will enter the city built by God and be able to spend eternity with Him in heaven. Even all the good that we receive from the Lord on this earth will pale in comparison to the perfection of our eternal heavenly rewards.