Waiting Is Not Wasted Time

Feb 23

Lamentations 3:25–26

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”

But let’s be honest, waiting rarely feels good. It feels slow, it can have us wondering or unclear on what God is doing with us. It often feels like nothing is happening. But the Scriptures speak differently.

Lamentations was not written in comfort. It was written in the aftermath of devastation. Jerusalem had fallen. Everything familiar had collapsed. And in the middle of grief, we hear the truth.

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him.

Remember, we learned something as we walked through the earlier chapters of Isaiah. Trust is waiting. And waiting is trust.

To wait for the Lord is not inactivity. It is not weakness or indecision. It is the steady refusal to run ahead of Him. It is the choice to not jump to our own solution when silence stretches longer than we prefer.

And that is what Selah has been. A pause. A deliberate slowing down. An opportunity to remember what He has already spoken to our spirit.

Because waiting is not empty space. It is creating space to be formed. It anchors the heart in who God is, even when we cannot yet see what He is doing.

We are only a few days away from stepping into Isaiah 40–66, the great movement of comfort, grace, and The Servant, the promised one who comes. What lies ahead is strength for the weary, hope for the humble, and promises that have been growing quietly beneath the surface.

But before comfort speaks, hearts again get the opportunity to learn to wait. Because waiting stretches trust. Waiting exposes impatience. And waiting reveals what we lean on when God feels silent.

Lamentations says it plainly. It is good to wait.

And not because the waiting itself is pleasant, but because the One we wait for is faithful. God does not waste waiting seasons.

He forms endurance there. He deepens hunger there. And He reminds us of what He has already said.

Grace often grows underground before it breaks through the surface. So as we stand on the edge of Isaiah’s great proclamation of comfort, do not rush this moment.

Hope quietly. Wait deliberately. And trust intentionally. Because waiting is not wasted time.

Selah.