Wait On the LORD

The Ground

David does not say this once and move on. He says it, and then says it again in the same breath: wait, I say, on the LORD. The repetition is not accidental. Waiting is hard enough to hear once and forget by evening. It needs to be said twice, and then practiced daily, because the ground you are standing on right now will still be unplanted tomorrow.

Notice what is paired with the waiting: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. Waiting in scripture is never presented as passive resignation, arms folded, simply enduring time until it passes. It is an active posture, courage required, strength given specifically for the waiting itself, not only for whatever comes after it.

This matters because a fallow season, unplanted and unresolved, tempts you toward two opposite errors. One is frantic forcing, trying to make something grow before its season. The other is despair, assuming nothing will ever grow here again. Waiting on the LORD is the third way, neither forcing nor giving up, courage held steady in ground still unplanted.

Whatever is not yet resolved in your life today, this verse does not ask you to pretend it is resolved, or to stop caring that it isn’t. It asks you to wait, courageously, on the one who strengthens hearts in exactly this kind of unfinished season.