Encouragement: Wait patiently

Here is your daily encouragement words and thoughts. Today I bring you encouragement from Lamentations 3:14-26

14 I have become the laughing stock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
16 He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
17 I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
18 So I said, “My endurance has expired;
I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.”
19 Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
20 I continually think about this, and I am depressed.

21 But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:
22 The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.
23 They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant!
24 “My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.
25 The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.
26 It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the Lord.

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (La 3:14-26). Biblical Studies Press.

With a book title of Lamentations your all probably saying why would I look for encouragement there. Well because I found some there.

A friend shared with me a saying that maybe puts everything into perspective.
"When we are down to nothing, God is up to something."

Our writer in Lamentations here is pretty down. In mid stream of his Lamentations he changes focus from his circumstance and attitude of woe is me I am done, to words that he has heard of promises that the Lord has made. Sometimes the only way God can enter in to fill our hearts is to take us to a point where he is the only way. Then God can be free to be up to something!

The last 2 lines are where we want to go. "The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him. It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the Lord."

In relating to God, belief develops quickly, Trust takes more time to develop and waiting patiently on the Lord is a life long journey. I end with a quote from one of Dr Wayne Dyer's books. "Infinite patients leads to immediate results."

Amen

Music Encouragement Jeremy Camp - I wait for the Lord