Waiting

 “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.” Psalm 130:5

I am in a season of waiting, and it goes against my nature. I’ve always liked to be busy, making goals and planning how to accomplish those goals. But now, I sit by Steve’s bedside waiting. It is clear that I am not in control of what is happening all around me, and so I wait.

What does it mean to wait for the Lord? The Hebrew word quvah used in this verse carries with it the picture of a cord being twisted and stretched. It’s a picture of a cord that is made strong by the tension it endures.

“My whole being waits.” It looks like I’m not doing anything as I sit by my husband's bed day after day, but looks are deceptive. My whole being waits as I look not only through the lens of the temporal but through the eyes of the eternal truths that I believe. It is a test of endurance.

For many years now I have been writing a blog called “The Ministry of Hope.” What is hope? Hope is the confident expectation of good. Hope is believing that God is good and that you can trust Him. “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.”