In Isaiah, chapter sixty-four, verses one through four, Isaiah engages in prophetic intercession for God to rend the heavens and come down in holy visitation to make His mighty name known to the nations, as in verse two, and do “terrible things” as in verse three, on behalf of His people in verse four. This is an intercession similar to the Lord’s Prayer (“Thy kingdom come”) that Jesus instructs New Testament believers to pray daily, as in Matthew six, verses nine through thirteen. God promises to act on behalf of those who wait for Him, as in verse four.
“For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.” God promises to do great things for those who wait for Him. He can intervene in the events of human history to cause people to perform His will. Believers must wait patiently and confidently for God’s great interventions from heaven, even as they persevere in faith, hope, love, and every good work that His grace makes possible. “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint,” as in Isaiah forty, verse thirty-one.
People desire that God would manifest Himself to them and for them, so that all may see it. This applies to the second-coming of Christ, when the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven. They plead what God had used to do, and had declared His gracious purpose to do, for His people. They need not fear being disappointed by it, for it is sure; or disappointed in it, for it is sufficient.
The happiness of His people is bound up in what God has designed for them, and is preparing for them, and preparing them for what He has done or will do. Can we believe this? And then think anything too great to expect from His truth, power, and love? It is spiritual and cannot be comprehended by human understanding. It is ever ready.
See what communion there is between a gracious God and a gracious soul. We must make conscience of doing our duty in everything the Lord our God requires. Thou meetest Him; this speaks His freeness and forwardness in doing them good. Though God has been angry with us for our sins, and justly, yet His anger has soon ended; but in His favour is life, which goes on and continues, and on that we depend for our salvation.