today’s first reading focuses on the hope that the season of Advent offers those who wait on the Lord. Interestingly, the verse just before our text is cute beyond imagination. While we are waiting on the Lord it is really the Lord who waits for us so that he can be gracious to us. He just wants us to align ourselves with his will. Those who made Egypt (or whatever their stubbornness is) their confidence were left ashamed of such a decision while those who sat still and made God alone their confidence were eventually comforted. It is matter of comfort to the people of God who put their trust in him, even in their darkest hour, to know that God is on their side. Their trust in God will not mis-founded.
In this life we go through many tough moments and challenges. Sometimes we don’t understand why; but the thing that we need to remember is that God is in control. The enemy wants you to feel sorry for yourself and sit and cry about it. But when we take the things that we are going through as the work of the Lord, and say ‘I’m not going to cry about this, but I am going to cry out to my God’, He will hear us and be gracious to us and we will see the work of the Lord in our lives.