So if you remember the last time
I was here, we were in 2 Corinthians and looked in Micah, but there
was one verse in Micah 7, 7 that said, therefore, I will look
unto the Lord. I will wait for the God of my
salvation. My God will hear me. Y'all, this
is his promise. This is his eternal hope for
us. This is what our whole life is,
is waiting on the Lord. You already know this. I mean,
how many times has John been here and taught us this? We hear
it every Sunday. How many times have we proved
God's patience, His long-suffering towards us and His mercy when
we don't wait? So there's nothing new I'm going
to say today. There's nothing original whatsoever I'm going
to say, at least I hope I don't. And Scott Richardson said, he
said, the only thing original in us is sin. So my hope today
is to be as unoriginal as possible. That's my hope. But we're just
so bad. We're so bad at waiting on Christ.
I mean, it's so contrary to our nature. It's one of the hardest
things for us to do. And there was an article that
John Newton, John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace, he wrote,
it's called The Impatient Patient. And he looks at the sinner at
himself as a picture of a patient waiting on our great physician,
which is Christ. And he says, as incredibly grateful
as we are, to be in the care of somebody with this perfect
skill, perfect skill, limitless compassion, this is who Christ
is. And somebody like that has taken
on our case. And no matter how complicated
my dead sin may be, we're confident, we have no doubt, He'll bring
us to complete healing. That's who our confidence is
in, that Christ says to the uttermost. Yet, we struggle. We struggle
with impatience and unbelief. I mean, that's what it's unbelief.
It's not waiting on Christ. It's just unbelief. And we complain
while we're in his care. We do. We complain. We resist
how he takes care of us. We wonder if those trials are
too deep. Is it really necessary? Is it
really necessary? We have a tendency to want to
take control of every situation we have. Everything that comes
our way, we want to take control of it and dictate how he should
work. But if not for his infinite patience,
he would have given up on us a long time ago. And John Newt
says, I'm convinced there's no amount of money that could persuade
any doctor that I know of to treat a patient like us, like
me. Anybody who's behaved that way to our great physician, which
is Christ. And surely, we think after a while, we finally learned
our lesson. We finally say, all right, I'm going to wait. I'm
going to wait on Christ. Surely, after all the countless
ways he's proven that He does everything perfectly, that we
can fully trust Him. And we can fully surrender ourselves
to His care. And every time we have made that
surrender a thousand times, a thousand times, we take it back. That's
what we do. We don't wait. See, if you're
like me, it's good to hear this one more time. Wait on the Lord.
And we look in Psalms. He says, I wait for the Lord.
My soul doth wait. And in his word do I hope. And
this next one, he says it twice. My soul wait more for the Lord
than they that watch for the morning. And I say more, more
than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the
Lord. With the Lord there is mercy and plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from
their iniquities. He shall save his people from
their sins. from the time God saved you,
if He has, from the time God saves His saints, you're waiting
on Christ. That's what we do. We wait on the Lord. We wait
on Him to return. Our whole life is waiting on
Him. For Him to work salvation in us, show us, grow us His grace
and mercy. That's what we're waiting on.
And eventually to come again and bring us home. That's what
we're waiting on. His promises are all yes and amen. Everyone. He's going to return. He said
it. He's coming for us again. Christ has said that's enough.
We can wait on nothing else. He shows us again and again.
It's good to wait for Him. And you know, believers, we're
waiting on the Lord all the time. I mean, we're waiting for the
Lord all the time for something because we're completely dependent
on everything. So we have to wait on Him. Because
Paul said, for we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness
by faith. And throughout our lives, y'all,
he's gonna put us in situations and give us trials to make us
wait. That's what he's gonna do. He's gonna grow us in faith
and show us again to wait on the Lord. That's what he's gonna
do. But waiting on the Lord is a grace. He says, my soul, my
soul doth wait. It's not something we can do.
It's a work. It's a work of grace. We have
no strength to do it. We're depending on him for all
things. Lord, if I'm gonna wait, you're gonna have to give me
the grace to do it, because I can't. Look at verse five. He says,
my soul doth wait. And in His Word, I do I hope. And y'all, waiting is not just
handcuffing yourself to a chair. That's doing nothing. If we could
mess something up, we'd mess nothing up, because we'd mess
it up. That's what it is. It says, my soul doth wait. God's
going to have to do work in me. Give me the grace to wait on
him. Give me the patience to wait on him. I can't do it. And
this is the new spirit he talks about. Everything we do is worldly. We can't wait. And if you look
at the definition of waiting in the Bible, I mean, it's basically
to believe. Some of these are to hope strongly,
confident expectation, to look for and to trust. to expect eagerly,
to wait steadily and patiently until it comes to pass. And the
thing is, we have a good hope. We have a good hope. That's what
we're waiting on. Patiently waiting for Him to
return. And His promise is our hope. He says, I'm coming back.
And this is what He teaches us while we wait for Him. If you
look in John 14, 1, He says, let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God, Believe also in me." This is just what he's
saying. In my Father's house are many
mansions and many mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare
a place for you, I'll come again and receive you unto myself,
that where I am, there you may be also. This is his promise. And y'all, that's finished. That's
done. I mean, it's like John Chapman
says, it's like we're already there. That's what he says. And
he's gonna make you, little by little, try by trial, to learn
this throughout your life. That's what he's gonna teach
us. He's gonna put you in situations where you're gonna have to wait
on him. This is his promise. And it will happen in his time,
not ours. We're gonna put our hand to it.
It's gonna happen in his time. And all his promises are in his
word, and y'all know his word shall not return void. It will
not. This is what the psalmist, this
is what David's talking about. I wait for the Lord, my soul
doth wait, and in his word do I hope. So just looking at who
our Lord is that we wait on. Who is our confident hope? Who
is that in? It's not just popular Jesus.
You hear John talk about the world falling in love. That's
not who it is. That's another Jesus, another gospel. Now He
is not just our God, Priest, and King, but He's our Sovereign
Creator. He created all things, all things. He's the Lord of
all heaven and earth, and in Psalms 90, it says, Lord, thou
hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hast formed the
earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou
art God. This is who we wait on. And in
Psalm 33 it says, By the word of the Lord were the heavens
made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. The
one who we wait on spoke the world into existence. This is
who we trust in. This is who we trust in. He's
eternal, but also he's our redeemer. He's our atonement. He's the
one seated at the right hand of God making intercessions for
us right now. This is who we wait on. He came
to earth, executed all the judgment in Him for the light of His people.
And this is the word that John talked about when he said, in
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God, and all things were made by Him, and without Him
was not anything made that was made. And in Him was life, and
the life was the light of man. He is our light. This is who
we wait on. In Psalm 130, it said, let Israel
hope. In verse 7 in our text, it said,
let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy,
and with Him there is plenteous redemption. And He shall save
Israel from all their iniquities. And this is what He did with
us. He's our hope. He put a new heart in us, and
that's what He does to keep us waiting on Him. And if Psalm
3320 says, Our soul waiteth for the Lord, He's our help and our
shield." It doesn't say He's willing to help, it doesn't say,
hey, here's a shield, go try it out, see if it works. It says
He is our shield. He's our shield, He's our sword,
He's our offense and our defense. And Spurgeon said, this weapon,
His help and our shield, is as powerful in the hands of a child
as it is of a mighty warrior. Even a believer, if they were
as tall as Goliath, need no better shield. And even if someone is
just starting out in the faith, it's the same sword, the same
sword for Matthew as it is for Doug, because it's Christ, and
it fits our hands perfectly. It fits our hands perfectly,
because it's on Christ who we wait. He's our help and our shield,
and He teaches us by this. The Lord shows us and teaches
us this, that His will shall be done. And His counsel shall
stand alone. That's it. And we don't know
God's providence. We don't. We know what His promises
are, but we don't know how He's going to do it. We don't know
that. But what we do know and are confident in the Lord when
He says, Your will, My will shall be done. And while we're waiting
on them to come to pass, it's His counsel that's going to stand.
What He says will come to pass. If you look in Isaiah 46, he
says, For I am God, and there is none else. He said, I am God,
and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and
from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. That's who
we wait on. I think Scott Richardson one
time said, If I had the power of God, I would change everything.
If I had the wisdom of God, I wouldn't change anything. And y'all, I'm
glad that he's my wisdom. I'm glad he does things according
to his will. Can y'all imagine what the mess of our lives would
look like if our will was done? And even John, I mean, in Job
33, it says, why do you strive against him? For he giveth not
account of any of his matters. And even recently, John, in one
of the bulletins, he made a really good statement. He says, we don't
really understand sovereignty. until we experience the Lord
taken from us without asking if He can. And when you see that,
you know that He's your only hope. Y'all remember Nebuchadnezzar,
right? Y'all remember what he taught Nebuchadnezzar for seven
years? Put him out in the field, turn him into a beast with long
hair and nails. And you remember what Nebuchadnezzar
said? He said that, I bless the Most High, and I praise and honor
Him that liveth forever, whose dominion is everlasting, and
kingdom is from generation to generation. and all the inhabitants
of the earth are reputing as nothing, and he does according
to his will with the army of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth, and none can stay his hand or say, what doest thou? Do y'all think Nebuchadnezzar
learned something about waiting on Christ? Because I sure hope
we do. So whatever, we can try to do
whatever we will, there's no counsel against Christ. Y'all
remember the blind man, when Christ our Lord reached down
and spit in the mud, made, spit in the dirt, made mud out of
it, put it on his eyes, told him to go wash, that's how he
saved him. That's his counsel doing that. And in Psalm 33,
it says, "...the Lord bringeth the counsel of heaven to nothing.
He maketh the devices of people to none effect." What we do,
He makes it not matter whatsoever. And the reason being, so no flesh
would glory in His presence. And the perfect picture of this
is on the cross. For what humanity and Satan and the entire world
did on the cross, they all meant it for evil. And the whole time,
He meant all that for good. That's what He did. His counsel
shall stand. He did that to save His people,
and that's what He means. Everything you see coming to
pass in this world, everything God is working, is for the good
of His people and His glory. All of it. And we can try to
do whatever we want to. There's no counsel against the
Lord. Put your hand to it. He'll make you wait longer. And
you remember Naaman as the example. Tommy talked about this last
week. Naaman the leper went up to Elisha wanting to be healed.
What did Elisha do? He sent a servant out to him.
Sent a servant out to him. He said, go wash in this nasty
river. And what did Naaman say? Man, that's not how I want it
to be. And Naaman went out and did exactly as he was told, and
he rejoiced in the Lord. His counsel shall stand. Just
wait on the Lord. So what do we do while we're
waiting? Waiting isn't just sitting in the corner waiting for something
to happen. We can't even do that right,
even if that was the case. Verse 5 says, I wait on the Lord,
my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. So waiting is
so contrary to what we do, so contrary to our nature, because
we just feel like we have to put our hand to it. And the irony
of it is, if you want to call it that, is waiting on the Lord
requires absolutely zero action in the flesh. because it's the
soul's work by grace. If you look in Lamentations,
and we've read this before, Lamentations 3, this is what waiting on the
Lord is. This is what it is. It is of
the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed because His compassions
fail not. They are new every morning. Great
is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul. Therefore will I hope in Him.
The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that
seeketh Him. It is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. And
it is comforting to know the Lord changes not, because if
He did, we would be consumed. We would. His compassion fails
not. But this is what we do while
we're waiting for the Lord. It's what we're doing right now.
It's what we're doing right now. We're praising Him. We're worshiping
Him, rejoicing in Him, hoping in His Word. Y'all, this is why
we come back. That's why we're here. We come
back every week so He can renew His mercies to us every single
day. We are seeking the Lord. His
mercies are new every day. And our prayer is for Him to
make Himself known to us, to make Himself known. And it says,
it's good, it is good that a man should both hope and quietly
wait for the Lord. And in verse five it says, in
his word do I hope. That is where our hoping and
that's where our promises are. My soul doth wait, and little
by little, Though y'all know we look through a glass darkly,
we do. Sometimes we don't even know
we're up or down. We wait each day for a fresh measure of His
mercy, for a new revelation, just some new light. This is
salvation every single day. This is what we wait on. But
what greater evidence do we need? What greater proof do we need?
that when God gives faith for us to believe Him, we believe
everything He says. We don't believe in part, we
believe it all. We believe it all. So, who is it? Who waits on the Lord? I mean,
who's qualified to wait on the Lord? If you would turn to Isaiah
40, turn to Isaiah 40, and we'll see who waits on the Lord. Who
is qualified? Starting in verse 28. Hast thou not known? Hast thou
not heard? That the everlasting God, the
Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither
is weary. There is no searching of his
understanding. He giveth power to the faint.
And to them that have no might, He increases strength. Even the
youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fail, shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall
walk and not faint. But here the Lord says, they
shall renew their strength. We don't have any strength. But
if you look at renew, if you look in your margins, it probably
says renew means to change or exchange. And the truth is we're
saved by the Lord's strength alone. I mean, we don't have
any. We don't have any. We don't. And this is what Paul says. He
says, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the
power of His might. He's talking about the Lord's
might here. That's where your strength's at. It ain't in you.
It's not. So who waits on the Lord? Those
that have no might, those that have no strength, can't deal
with the burden of your sin, the anxious, the scared, the
poor, the needy. It says even the youth shall
faint and the young shall utterly fall. There is none searching
for his understanding, but he says those that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength. we will exchange our utter weakness
for his utter might. That's what he's talking about.
That's what he's talking about here. And that's what Paul means. Y'all know what Paul, he said,
for my strength is made perfect in weakness. For when I am weak,
then I am strong. In our utter weakness, we exchange
it for Christ's. In our utter weakness, we get
His strength. That's what He means. His grace
is magnified to us. In Romans 6, and y'all remember
this, Paul said, for when we were yet without strength in
due time, Christ died for the ungodly. But when God commandeth
His love towards us, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more
being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. When we had
no strength, when we were sinners, when we were enemies, that's
when God saved us. That's who we wait on. And y'all, as long
as we're running, as long as we're thinking we got some strength,
God's just gonna wait till we are faint. That's what He's gonna
do. we're on our faces beggars in the mud in the mire saying
Lord if you don't save me I ain't gonna be saved that's where we
that's where we're at that's who he makes strong that's y'all
that's when he's exalted to you that's when his grace is magnified
to you when you're absolutely dead on your face and that's
when you praise him and you'll praise him alone y'all what a
mercy and blessing it is to be weak and have no strength I wish
we could just understand what kind of mercy that is. To patiently
wait on the Lord as a beggar, saying, Lord, I need your strength,
but I ain't got none. And how does he do it? Because
waiting on the Lord is so hard. I mean, it's like believing,
I can't. I can't do it. Waiting on the
Lord. I want to put my hand to it.
I can't. In Psalm 27, he says, Wait on
the Lord. Be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Because
you know, any time we're not happy, we're not rejoicing in
the Lord, y'all know we're the cause of that. It's because we're
not believing, not waiting on Him. You know, we're trying to
put our hand to it, bring our own counsel to pass. But let
me remind you of this. And I'm reminding myself of this,
not y'all, but y'all at the same time. that everything the Lord
commands us to do, He's gotta provide it. Everything. We cannot
do anything. We have to go to Him and say,
Lord, You're gonna have to give me a grace and do that work in
me, because I can't. You want me to believe? Lord, You gotta
be my belief. Try to believe. See how far you get. You want
me to hope? Lord, You're gonna have to give
me hope. You want me to wait? Lord, You're gonna have to give
me the grace and patience to do it. I can't. In Proverbs 21,
it says, the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. As the
rivers of water, he turneth them whithersoever he will. That's
what he does. Can you turn a river? Can you
turn a river? He can. Lord, turn me and I'll
be turned. He can do that. Give me repentance
and I'll repent. Otherwise, I can't. Cause me
to wait on you alone and my soul on you alone, I'll wait. You
know, that's our lot in life is waiting. We're constantly
waiting for him for something in our weakness. And you know,
oftentimes we think it's going to get better and it just doesn't
never does. We go from one trouble to the
next. That's what we do. Scott Richardson, and I think
John even mentioned this lately, he said a believer's either in
the midst of a trial, coming out of a trial, or going into
a new trial. And y'all, sometimes I think
we're doing all three at one time. I think we're in one trial,
coming in an old one, coming out of one, just doing them all
three. But just like Paul, who God gave a thorn in the flesh,
the Lord's gonna put you in a trial. He ain't taking you out. He ain't
taking you out. He's going to leave you there.
But you know what? That's the best thing for you. For me, that's
the best thing. Because he's going to teach you
my grace is sufficient. That's what he's going to teach
you. My grace is sufficient. He's I can turn the river. This
is what he's going to teach you. I can turn the river. He's going
to show you his strength and the only way you'll see it. is
for you to see you don't have any of your own. In fact, it
was John Owen who said, he said, we will have no power from Christ
until we live in the persuasion we have none of our own. And
that's what God in Christ makes us to see. And y'all, I think
this is the hardest thing we do in life. We just want things
to happen in our own time. We don't want it to be hard.
We just get tired of waiting. We just get tired of waiting.
We're so impatient, we think He's not doing enough, think
we know better. You know, how much do we worry? And when you
wait on the Lord, when your soul waits on the Lord, and in His
Word you hope, if that's where our hope is, when He's with you
in spirit, and you can stand against anything, a multitude,
when you look to yourself, when you say like Peter, Lord, everybody
else will forsake you, but not me. Not me, I'll stand by you. And what you'll do is you'll
stand there by a firelight peter and some little girl will come
up and ask if you know him and you'll curse God and say, I don't
know him. I don't know who he is because we have no strength.
We have none. We know without His grace and
our time I need, we'll say like Job's wife, curse God and die. We would say the same thing.
Have you ever been there? You've ever been tired of waiting,
just tired, tired of waiting? Is God gonna cast you off? Y'all,
that's the good news. That's the good news. And Tommy
talked about it last Sunday, talking about Gomer. He talked
about Gomer. And the thing is, when you're
made to know you have no strength of your own, and He brings you
to nothing, strips you down to absolutely nothing, like Gomer
on the slave lot, nobody wants you. That's what Tommy talked
about. Nobody wants you. But the Lord, the Lord comes
forth, and what does He say? And y'all, that's when he's made
glorious to our eyes. That's when his grace is made
known to us. And you're gonna see you're saved
by his grace alone. No strength of your own. You
know, Gomer was a promiscuous, if not a prostitute. That's who
he saves. Somebody with no strength. Y'all,
that's when you'll rejoice in him. That's when you'll realize
you're purchased, you're bought with a price, purchased by blood.
And you'll see everything you did, you did against Him and
Him alone. We messed it all up. And the
Lord was gracious to you. And He delivered you from the
pit, pled your cause, made you righteous, and He didn't cast
you away. And you'll rejoice, and you'll wait on Him. And the Lord's gonna do this
on His own time, on His own timetable. It's called due time. It's His
counsel shall stand. In the fullness of time, God
sent forth His Son. Not before, not after, and everything
God happens is in the end. That's when it happens. You know,
they couldn't touch Christ until the hour had come. How many times
He say, My time has not yet come. The hour has not yet come. Everything
in God's purpose has a set time and nothing's going to change
it. Nothing's gonna change it. He's gonna show you and grow
you to know our only help and our only shield is him That's
what he's gonna show you And He calls us to glory in these
tribulations. So why do we glory? Why do we
glory in these things that are so hard on this earth, that we're
so impatient? If you look in Romans 5, and
He says, and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,
knowing that tribulation work of patience and patience experience
and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed, because the
love of God is shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Ghost,
which is given to us." Y'all, that's you and me. That's why
we wait, and that's what He teaches us, that we trust Him. And y'all know, He's never gonna
make you shame for trusting Him. He's never gonna put you to shame
for trusting Him. He's gonna keep you believing, keep you
hoping, and your heart shall rejoice in the Lord, because
He's gonna keep saving you every single day. His mercies are gonna
be new every day. And He's gonna do it all in His
time, and at the end, that's when it'll happen. And y'all,
John said, and he's right, if you are Christ today, you're
ending in good. Wait on the Lord. And when I
think of trials and circumstances that He puts us in, the suffering
of people, I mean, I look at some of the preachers. I mean,
Henry Mahan, how many sons did he lose? How many sons? I mean, Mike Walker. I remember
going to Debbie's funeral. I mean, look at Joe Terrell.
He was pretty much murdered. Even at Bethel. Y'all know what
afflictions and trials you have? They're hard. They're hard. I
mean, everybody struggles with circumstances of sin that we're
in. They affect us. It's our health. And it's easy
to focus on. It's really hard not to focus
on. But when I think about that, when I think of Christ our Lord
who was made sin for us, secured our righteousness in all these
trials and afflictions, here's what I think. He could have left
me alone. He could have left me to myself.
We could not be here today waiting on the Lord. That's what I think
of, and when I think about that, I'm reminded again in 2 Corinthians,
and y'all know this, for our light, our light afflictions,
which is but for a moment, it's just for a short time, working
for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. And
when by grace, when by His grace, y'all, and it is by His grace
He enables us to set our affections and our eyes on things above,
where Christ is seated at His right hand, y'all, we have everything,
everything we need to deal with whatever circumstance He puts
us in. But it's His grace that's gonna do it. Anything that He
ordains for us, we have it when He causes us to do that. to wait
and hope on the Lord. So what do we gain by waiting? So in closing, it's going back
to John Newton. So what do we gain by waiting?
Do we gain nothing from waiting on the Lord? From waiting on
His Word? Oh, we gain something. It just
wasn't what we originally thought it was. Just like Naaman. That's
not how I thought. We have a multitude of proof,
number one, of the deceitfulness of our heart, the deep corruption
of our sin. And we can only hope by God's
grace, He has told us a little bit to know when we look at ourselves
and say, behold, I am vile. I'm a worm and no man. And even
knowing Christ did that for us, He said the same thing. Yet along
with this painful knowledge, we also see a lot more. In all these trials and tribulations,
we see a lot more of Christ's wisdom, His power, His love towards
our souls, His strength, His justification, just how much
we need Him every single day. We've seen the glory of His mercy
as He passes by iniquity. He says, I put it out of my sight.
I don't see it. That's what we see. In my soul,
we cannot help but rejoice in the Lord. And John Newton said,
if during my life, in my own sight, he has grown greater and
I have grown less, if he has increased and I have decreased,
y'all, we have reason to be grateful. Every minute, every hour of waiting
is worth more than mountains of gold. And we can say with
Paul, when Christ causes us to see this, that I do, I count
all things but loss. Everything else I count but loss.
For the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them
but done, that I may win Christ. Yet this is what he makes us
wait for, to cause us to see. And y'all, what a paradox it
is What a paradox it is that our labor to rest is waiting
on Christ. That's what it is. My soul doth
wait. And that's nothing but coming
boldly before the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and
find grace to help in our time of need. And what does he say?
And my Lord will hear me. That's his promise. That's our
lot in life, just waiting on the Lord. In Isaiah 40, he says,
but those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and
not be weary. And they shall walk and not faint.
This is his promise to us. And what I've gained most is
the comforting knowledge that we've learned of a hopeful expectation
that I wait for the Lord, that my soul doth wait, and in His
Word do I hope. And y'all, the whole time, the
whole time I'm waiting, that you're waiting, it's always Christ
waiting on us, in His infinite mercy, in His patience, in His
time, to bring us to see Him. So Lord, help our souls to wait
on Him and hope in His Word. Amen. Thanks.