What the Bible says about Waiting for our Hope

Wait on the Lord for your hope

Trust in the LORD and do good; 

Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. 

Delight yourself in the LORD; 

And He will give you the desires of your heart. 

Commit your way to the LORD, 

Trust also in Him, and He will do it. 

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light 

And your judgment as the noonday. 

Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him; 

Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, 

Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. 

Cease from anger and forsake wrath; 

Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

For evildoers will be cut off, 

But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land. 

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more; 

And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

But the humble will inherit the land 

And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

 Psalm 37:3-11

The unjust will be given their due

I was envious of the arrogant As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For there are no pains in their death, And their body is fat.

They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like mankind.

Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart run riot.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high….

 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence;

 For I have been stricken all day long And chastened every morning.

 If I had said, "I will speak thus," Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

 When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight

 Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.

 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

 Psalm 73:3-8, 13-18

Pray for justice

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, saying, "In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man. There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give me legal protection from my opponent.' For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said; now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?"

 Luke 18:1-8

We groan for God's salvation

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.  For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

 Romans 8:16-25

O LORD, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your chastening was upon them. As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains, Thus were we before You, O LORD. We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born. Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

 Isaiah 26:16-19

All enemies will be subject to Christ

As in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

 I Corinthians 15:22-28

Be patient

Be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

James 5:7-8