Hopeful Waiting

Waiting is an activity with impressive documentation throughout Scripture,

yet it's astonishingly ignored in most constructs of how to live the Christian life.

Waiting isn't a passive occupation but an active and hopeful orientation toward the

activity of God for which there's no present evidence.

Refusal to wait is a refusal to trust.

Paul never counselled passivity or quietism. He did, however, commend the hopeful

waiting that expects Christ to save the day-not only in the Second Coming but also

in all the daily comings where he shows up in our lives, offering salvation from

one kind of doom or another, whether a doomed marriage or a dommed business

or simply a doomed attitude.

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