The verse for this one is Isaiah 30:18. Now the first sentence of the verse is, “…therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you” (KJV; emphasis added).

Do you get it? Are you getting this? God’s goodness means He waits to bless you. God’s love means He waits to deliver you out of your situation. God’s care means He waits to bring healing and restoration. God’s compassion means He waits to end the suffering.

Why is there suffering? It’s not because God wants us to suffer. He wants to bless us! It’s His love that withholds the blessing. Life is marked with suffering because it’s a tool of God’s grace to draw us to Himself, so that we can live in safety and security, and peace and joy and in the fullness of love, all of which can only come from Him.

If you are thinking He chose a poor way to show His love, you aren’t getting it. A life of ease and pleasure is a selfish life. A selfish life leads to death. A life of only ease and comfort and pleasure would kill us all. His will is life. Without evil, we wouldn’t recognize His good. Without pain and sickness, we wouldn’t recognize His healing. Without troubles, we wouldn’t see His deliverance. We would miss most of who He is, if we only saw the one side. You don’t appreciate light until you know what dark is. How many people have realized they didn’t appreciate something until it was gone?

God is always good. He never stops being Himself. Your financial bind isn’t because God stopped loving and caring. He is always love. He is always good. He is always just. He is always holy.

I read you the first sentence of the verse. Here’s the last: “…blessed are all they that wait for him” (KJV).