“The Lord is good to those who wait for Him” (Lam 3:25).
Often prayer is referred to as waiting. “In darkness, underneath the January frost, God is getting ready the royal glories of spring…it is His ordination that there shall be eleven months of husbandry for one month of harvest.
“In the spiritual field you may trace the action of the same law. Man is often in haste; God never. We would give the largest measure of time to results; He gives it to preparations. We…are apt to value that agent most whose work makes most show in a report…He, on the contrary, often brings His most honored servants through a long path of obscurity to fit them for some short service that is unknown to human fame; for a single word spoken in a breath or a single deed done in a day may heighten the joy of heaven and flow on forever. Years may be needed to prepare you for saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in one critical moment. Many a man may train all his life for his last hour.” —C. Stanford