In Isaiah, chapter twenty-six, verses eight through nine, “Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.”
During the final days of history, the righteous will wait long for the appearing of their Lord. Isaiah describes that longing as an earnest yearning for the final manifestation of the presence of God, and HIs righteousness upon earth. Faithful believers in Christ should long and pray for the return of their Lord to catch them away from the earth, so that they might be with Him forever. They desire the judgments of the Lord to begin so that the ungodly will learn what justice and righteousness are, and the Lord to reign triumphantly forever, as in Revelation chapters twenty and twenty-one.
“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 chapter forty, verse thirty-one. Patience is a virtue for believers who hold to God’s unchanging hands. After all, He created all things. Therefore, the Lord is the Holy One who will cause all things “to work together for good,” as in Romans eight, verse twenty-eight, within our lives. However, what opposes patience is impatience generated from the physical, the flesh, which we have to guard against. Self-control is what separates the godly from the ungodly, the righteous from the unrighteous, and the good from the bad. Wait for God.