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 XJoin in livestreamed Sunday worship, connecting with the 9:30 contemporary or 10:30 traditional services at live.kentmethodist.org
