Are you waiting for something? Are you hoping it will come quickly? Does your object of desire need to grow? Will you assist in its growth? Do you need someone else to provide what you are waiting for? How long will you wait? Are you waiting for God to show you his plan?
We wait for many things. Some of them are deep desires. Others are simply part of life. Sometimes we can help them come to fruition. Other times we cannot. As we wait, we may become impatient. Or we may not need to wait for long.
Waiting for an opportunity to buy a new house may take a long time as we save money and look for the right house. Waiting to buy a new car may take less time or may never happen. Waiting to have children can be both challenging and very rewarding. In our waiting for these things, we can become very impatient. Impatience can cause us to go into more debt than is wise.
As Christians, we also wait for the full implementation of God’s plan. Yet, as we see in today’s passage, through the prophet Isaiah, God promised to bring about his righteousness. In fact, we see that it will spring up before all the nations. What does this mean? It means God’s righteousness will be clearly evident to all people around the entire earth.
Though we still wait, we can be assured that God will bring his righteousness into view for all to see. We can be confident that God will execute his plan in his time. We may wait and not see it before we pass from this earth. Regardless of whether we see it in our lifetime or in eternity, we can trust that God is at work and will complete his plan.
I pray we all trust that God will complete his plan. I pray we are confident that God will bring about righteousness. I pray each one of us will assist God’s plan by spreading his Word to people we meet. Trust God. Be confident in God’s plan. Look for God’s righteousness. Participate in God’s plan.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its shoots,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring up before all the nations.
Marty Pressey 