This week in Crisis Counsels we have focused on a passage in the book of Lamentations in which Jeremiah looks in faith to God out of a situation of enormous trouble. The final verse in our passage is Lamentations 3:26:

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

In the Hebrew Scriptures, to “wait” does not mean to sit back and do nothing. It means to have a calm perseverance, in which one continues to look with trust to God, even if the answers one seeks are slow in coming. Surely we need this kind of patient and faithful waiting today! Note that what Jeremiah waits for is “the salvation of the Lord.” We wait, not with anxious uncertainty, but with the confidence that God is at work for good.

Prayer – Help us, O God, to wait quietly for how Your saving power will be at work in our lives. Share on X

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About the Author

Dr. David A. Palmer has been the senior pastor at the United Methodist Church of Kent since 1995. He has a B.A. from Wittenberg University, a Master of Divinity from Duke University, and a Doctor of Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary. A native of Wooster, Ohio, he has served three other churches in east Ohio before coming to Kent. He and his wife, Mavis, have three children.