Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Isaiah chapter 64, verse 4.

From of old, no one has heard or perceived by the ear.

No eye has seen a God besides you who acts for those who wait for him.

Well, what a verse of encouragement,

what a confession of faith for those who find themselves waiting on God.

I don't know obviously what's going on in your life right now,

but I'm guessing many people who are listening to this right now are waiting for God in some way,

waiting for God to provide in this way or that way, waiting for this or that situation to resolve.

I know that's true in my own life and my own family.

Without going into details here, I feel like the last couple of years and recent months have

involved so much waiting and I've actually grown to love the way God's word talks about waiting.

So one Bible scholar described how this word and the original language of the Old Testament in

the Hebrew could be translated to rest trustfully in God.

That this is what it means to wait on God to wait for God.

It means to rest trustfully in God in his goodness and his wisdom.

And his love and his sovereignty and his power when we are waiting, we long for this or that to happen

for God to move in this or that way.

And it is good to know that we can rest trustfully in the goodness of God and the wisdom of God.

He sees things, knows things we don't know.

He loves us. We can trust in his love.

We can trust in his purpose that he's promised to work all these things together

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