Waiting for the Lord
The lecture revolves around the virtue of waiting on the Lord and the importance of patience with God’s promises without resorting to rushed human solutions, because God works at the right time and in the proper way.
Spiritual and Educational Dimension
- His Holiness Pope Shenouda III explains that the problem of our father Abraham was not waiting for the Lord, which led him to human solutions such as Hagar and later Keturah, resulting in painful and unfruitful outcomes.
- God gives promises, but He fulfills them according to His divine wisdom, not according to human haste.
- True waiting should not be accompanied by anxiety or disturbance, but by faith and trust, as the Psalm says: “Wait on the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage.”
- The entire history of salvation is a testimony to waiting: from God’s promise to Adam and Eve until the coming of Christ in the fullness of time after thousands of years.
- Those who waited for the Lord, even if they did not receive the promises in their lifetime, lived by faith and saw them from afar.
- Waiting for the Lord is a deep spiritual school: a school of prayer, fasting, humility, and vows, as seen in the life of Hannah, the mother of Samuel.
- God works even when it seems to humans that He is silent or delayed; He prepares people and events over many years.
- Trusting in God’s perfect love and His unlimited wisdom grants the believer inner peace.
- Human solutions may produce quick results, but they lack depth and blessing, while waiting on the Lord produces salvation and spiritual maturity.
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