Day 255 Bible Readings – Isaiah 30: 18 (ESV)

Isaiah 29-30, 2 Corinthians 12: 11-21, Psalm 134

Isaiah 30: 18 (ESV)

“Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.”

Verse 18 from Isaiah 30 is Isaiah telling us to trust in God’s timing. Isaiah tells us that when God seems slow to answer our prayers, it always because he has a purpose behind that is in our best interest even if it may not seem like to us at the time. When we receive mercy from God, he is exalted in our eyes because he has given us his grace. God will deliver justice and answer our prayers, but only to those who are willing to wait on God’s timing.

I know for myself that waiting for God’s timing to answer prayers is a hard thing. But God’s timing in my experience is always perfect, even though I only see how perfect God’s timing is in hindsight a long time afterwards. Because we cannot see into the future, we need to trust in God’s timing. God sees our past, present, and future. So we need to always trust God’s timing and rely on his promise to us that he will always answers our prayers in a way that serves us for our ultimate good.