EAGERLY WAITING ON THE LORD

Romans 8:23-25 TPT

And it’s not just creation. We who have already experienced the first fruits of the Spirit also inwardly groan as we passionately long to experience our full status as God’s sons and daughters—including our physical bodies being transformed. 

[24] For this is the hope of our salvation. But hope means that we must trust and wait for what is still unseen. For why would we need to hope for something we already have? 

[25] So because our hope is set on what is yet to be seen, we patiently keep on waiting for its fulfilment.


We talked about waiting patiently on the Lord, but God wants us to be eager in our waiting, anticipating His wonders and goodness towards us. We are not the first generation to be asked to wait. Paul says believers in his days groaned in frustrated longing for God’s intervention and deliverance in their case.

Many of us have been waiting continually and patiently on the Lord for certain things, but how many of us are eagerly waiting for the manifestation of those promises? Everyone is waiting for something, and sometimes it may look like suffering. Believers especially have to suffer, as Christ said in John 16:33, for the glorification of the Father. However, we must eagerly wait with expectation for the Lord to come through.

The core of the Lord is good through and through, and it is this goodness that He shows to those who wait on Him, according to Lamentations 3:25. Those who eagerly anticipate His goodness and mercies will see His wonders. Even as we groan in suffering and frustration, we should still be eager in waiting for God’s goodness because one can only wait in hope for an expectation—eager hope.

Habakkuk 2:3 promises that the expected vision will not fail. Even if it seems delayed, we must wait for it, for it shall surely take place at the set time. We must look forward expectantly, in a place of expectation. Many of us are exhibiting the image expressed in Psalm 69:3, exhausting ourselves with weeping, waiting for God to “perform.” Instead, we should wait patiently, continually, and eagerly with joy.

Remember, according to Nehemiah 8:10, it is the joy of the Lord that strengthens us to wait on Him. Wait eagerly, continually, and patiently. To wait for the Lord is to look to Him with dependence and trust, not passivity, but eagerly. This will enable us to be strong and courageous, as stated in Psalm 27:14.

The Lord is waiting to be gracious to us, so we too must wait eagerly to receive from Him. Isaiah 30:18 says He is gracious to those who wait for Him. God is just; He knows the perfect way to achieve His purpose, the perfect time to move, and the perfect kind of miracle to send you.

We wait on a man with anticipated hope that he will do what he has promised, even when it looks like he’s forgotten or is ignoring us. Yet, we make excuses for them when God is the only one we should eagerly anticipate to deliver and save us. Psalm 62:5 encourages us to place our hope only in God.

It won’t be easy to wait eagerly for something we have no idea of when and if it will happen, but that’s the beauty of faith according to Hebrews 11:1—the assurance or confidence of our hope in Christ, the conviction that our waiting will pay off eventually because it’s settled on something in the future based on God’s promises.

We all have the Spirit of God, but we still must await the day of our final adoption, when our bodies, fully redeemed, are raised from the dead. So, let’s wait eagerly on the Lord.

PRAYER: Lord as I wait for your promises, help me to with eager anticipation, knowing that it whatever you do will be glorious in Jesus’ name, amen.

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