“The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.” Lamentations 3:25

Do you like waiting? Neither do I. This verse has been a comfort to me over the years, but I recently realized I had been making an assumption about God’s goodness that isn’t at all what this verse is meant to convey.

You see, I read this verse, and was comforted to think that God is good, that someday whatever it was I was waiting for would come, or the wait would be over, and then I would see God’s g...