Isaiah 30:18  Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you,…blessed are all those who wait for him.

This continues the theme I wrote on yesterday about there being purpose in the threshing.

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 would kill us. His will is life. Without evil, we wouldn’t recognize His good. We would miss most of who He is if we only saw the one side. God is always good. He never stops being Himself. He is always love. He is always just. He is always holy.

“Blessed are all those wait for him.”