Romans 8:23-25 TPT
And it’s not just creation. We who have already experienced the first fruits of the Spirit also inwardly groan as we passionately long to experience our full status as God’s sons and daughters—including our physical bodies being transformed.
[24] For this is the hope of our salvation. But hope means that we must trust and wait for what is still unseen. For why would we need to hope for something we already have?
[25] So because our hope is set on what is yet to be seen, we patiently keep on waiting for its fulfilment.

We talked about waiting on the Lord patiently and continually but most of us wait reluctantly, and grudgingly, yet God wants us to be eager in anticipating His wonders and goodness towards us.
We are not the first generation to be asked to wait, Paul says believers in His days groaned in frustrated longing for God’s intervention and deliverance in their case.
So many of us have been waiting continually and patiently on the Lord for certain things but how many of us are waiting eagerly for the manifestation of God’s promises?
Everyone is waiting for something and sometimes it may look like suffering but believers have to especially suffer as Christ said in John 16:33 for the glorification of the father but we must eagerly wait with expectation for the Lord to come through.
The core of the Lord is good through and through and it is this goodness that He shows to those who wait on Him according to Lamentation 3:25, those who eagerly anticipate His goodness and mercies.
Even as we groan in suffering and frustration, we should still be eager in waiting for God’s goodness because one can only wait in hope for an expectation, eager hope.
Habakkuk 2:3 promises that the expected vision will not fail, even if it seems delayed, we must wait for it, for it shall surely take place in the set time, so must look forward expectantly, in the place of expectation.
So many of us are exhibiting the image expressed in Psalm 69:3, exhausting ourselves with weeping, waiting for God to “perform”, when what we should be doing is wait patiently, continually and eagerly with joy.
Remember, according to Nehemiah 8:10, it is the joy of the Lord that strengthens us to wait on Him. Wait eagerly, continually and patiently.
To wait for the Lord is to look to him with dependence and trust, not passivity but eagerly, which will enable one to be strong and courageous according to Psalms 27:14.
The Lord is waiting to be gracious to us, so, we too must wait eagerly to receive from Him. Isaiah 30:18 says He is gracious to those who wait for Him, God is just, He knows the perfect way to achieve His purpose, the perfect time to move, and the perfect kind of miracle to send you.
We wait on a man with anticipated hope that they will do what they have promised, even when it looks like they’ve forgotten or are ignoring us, yet we make excuses for them when God is the only one we really should be eagerly anticipating to deliver and save us as Psalm 62:5 says, encouraging us to place our hope only in God.
It won’t be easy to wait eagerly for something we have no idea of when and if it will happen, but that’s the beauty of faith according to Hebrew 11:1, the assurance or confidence of our hope in Christ, the conviction that our waiting will pay off eventually because it’s settled on something in the future based on God’s promises.
We all have the Spirit of God but we still must await the day of our final adoption, when our bodies, fully redeemed, are raised from the dead, so let’s wait eagerly on the Lord.
Shalom