Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Here is a general ground of encouragement. 1. The Lord makes use of troublesome and declining times to drive His people the more to their duty and thrift. 2. There is in God sufficient matter of encouragement to counterbalance any difficulty or discouragement that His people meet with in the world. Looking unto the Lord is an all-sufficient remedy to keep them from being carried away in a declining time, and from discouragement in a sad time. 3. In declining and sad times the people of God ought to be most earnest in dealing with Him, defending on Him, and expecting His help. Lukewarm dealing with God, however it may please fools in a calm day, yet will not bear out in a time of public defection. 4. In the reeling and turning upside down of things here below the people of God are not so much to look to these uncertainties as unto the immutability of God in what He is to His people. 5. With our faith and ardency in expecting God's help, patient waiting is also to be conjoined, by keeping His way, notwithstanding difficulties or delays of deliverance, and resolving to have faith exercised before it get the victory. 6. In all the waiting of the people of God upon Him there is still hope and confidence, though it be not always seen to the waiter; for the same word in the original signifies both waiting and hoping. (George Hutcheson.) Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.WEB: But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. |