Lamentations 3:25 · World English Bible
Lamentations 3:25 Meaning Yahweh Is Good to Those Who Wait
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
What does Lamentations 3:25 mean?
To wait here is not to pace and check the door. This waiting is a stillness that stops grasping at the next moment and rests in this one, open and unhurried.
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To wait here is not to pace and check the door. This waiting is a stillness that stops grasping at the next moment and rests in this one, open and unhurried. The seeking soul is not chasing. Such a soul turns inward, toward the quiet where its source has always been.
Goodness meets this waiting because such waiting has already loosened its grip on wanting. A person who stops demanding and simply stays present finds the presence they were reaching for was never absent. Out of the ruin around the one who wrote this, a steady goodness answers the soul that grows quiet and waits.
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Live Lamentations 3:25 today
- Stand in the grocery line or at the bus stop without reaching for your phone. Just be there, waiting, letting the minutes be what they are instead of filling them.
- When you text someone something that matters, resist checking for the reply every few minutes. Let the waiting sit unfinished and carry on with your day without the ache of refreshing.
- In a meeting where you are itching to jump in, hold back one beat longer than feels comfortable. Stay present with the room rather than rehearsing your next line.
What would change today if waiting stopped feeling like something to get through?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Return to stillness and let things settle like mud in water. The clarity you were straining to produce arrives on its own once you stop stirring.
Sufism · Rumi
What you are searching for is also searching for you, and it is nearer than the search. Stop running and you find you have already arrived.
Zen
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, the season turns and the grass grows by itself. Nothing is forced and everything comes.
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