In Lamentations (3:25) we read, "The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him." What does it mean to wait on God? To wait on God is to be obedient to divine Principle. To wait on Him is to lift thought above the sense testimony of confusion, lack, limitation, and to recognize the perfect operation of Mind abundantly manifested everywhere. It is to pause sufficiently long to ascertain whether it is mortal, erring mind or the one divine Mind which is directing one's thoughts and ways; to listen intelligently, trustingly, and actively for God's voice; to realize that whatever the anxiety, danger, or fear seems to be, God is loving, guiding, governing, and controlling the entire universe. To wait on God is to acknowledge no power apart from Him, to declare man's perfection, spirituality, and completeness here and now.
Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 323): "Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause,—wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory." What a picture Mrs. Eddy paints in those words! What a promise they hold! We, too, can reach the glory of divine heights when we obediently and trustingly "wait on God."
There is a pause in which we wait on God, and one in which we do not wait on Him. Either we wait with Him or we wait without Him. The pause in which we do not wait on God is based on a material premise, and indicates indecision, suspicion, procrastination, doubt. The thought which waits on Him is alert yet quiet, active yet restful, watchful yet peaceful.
