I Will Yet Believe

"I had believed to see." David uses the past tense — remembering himself in a moment of crisis, choosing to believe. Not because it was easy. But because it was the only way forward that made sense.

He believed he would see the goodness of God still in this life. Not only in heaven, not only in eternity — in the land of the living, here, in this present time.

And then the psalm ends with a repeated instruction: wait. Twice, as if he knew you'd need to hear it again. Wait on the Lord. He will strengthen your heart. Wait.

When you wait on God, you aren't standing still. You are being strengthened from within. Like a root that grows deeper during winter to sustain the tree when spring arrives. The strengthening happens in the silence of the waiting.

You will still see the goodness of God. Still. Don't give up before your time comes.