We are all familiar with waiting. We wait for buses, for letters, for a holiday, for a better job, better health, for an end to this and a start to that. We wait and we long for something better.
God waits too.
I don't know how I haven't seen it before. After all, there is the story of the prodigal son. What does the father do in that story? He waits and watches and longs for his son to come home.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing." Matthew 23:37
Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 30:18
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