Wait for the Lord

“I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:13-14
In the movie Minority Report, there’s a scene where John Anderton and Agatha are trying to escape detection from the Pre-Crime officers in a shopping mall. In the middle of the plaza, Agatha clings to him and says, ‘Wait... wait...!’ It’s all he can do to listen to her and not run, as the officers move into position on an upper floor. But when they arrive and look down in the plaza for him, a man with a big bunch of balloons has moved into exactly the right position in front of them so that they are hidden from the officers’ view.
Sometimes it feels like this for us. The Holy Spirit is telling us to wait, which sounds to us like the worst option to take – we think surely the circumstances will overwhelm and trap us, and it would be better to flee, or to go on the offensive and try to do something to stop those things from happening to us. But it’s when we wait on the Lord, that He provides protection and a way out for us. We can say with David, “I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living” (Ps. 27:13). For the Christian, things will get better. When things go from bad to worse, hang in there and wait on the Lord – He will come through for you, in His perfect time.