DAILY?READINGS: Esther 2; Zechariah 12 to 13:6; Revelation 19:1-10
Neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what hath prepared for him that waiteth for Him. Isaiah 64:4
One writer has said, “Waiting doesn’t diminish us any more than waiting diminishes an expecting mother; we are enlarged in the waiting.” How many of the Lord’s people have been to the “school of waiting”—perhaps impatiently, or reluctantly, or resignedly? But as we wait trustingly and confidently, we may well find ourselves enlarged as our request matures and we are prepared to receive it as a gift from God. —M. MacMullen
Be still my soul, thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as He has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake,
All now mysterious shall be bright at last. —K. von Schlegel