Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.
The Lord waits, because He is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish. And we wait, because we need divine direction. The way is too steep, too fraught with danger, to go by ourselves.
