Psalms 130:5 “I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.”
To “wait for the LORD”, in this context, is to continue to lovingly worship and serve Him, even in the most dire circumstances of life, knowing that the Lord “will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” (Josua 1:5). We rejoice to “wait for the LORD” because our loving faith in “the LORD” is stronger than our present fear and distress. When “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego” were about to be thrown into “the midst of a burning fiery furnace” (Daniel 3:15-16), they told the king, “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” (Daniel 3:17). They knew that “the LORD” was going to either deliver them from destruction in the “fiery furnace” or He was going to deliver them from the power of the king into Heaven with the Lord. Sometimes our distress is short lived until the Lord delivers us, but sometimes the distress continues on for extended periods of time, and in some cases the distress remains with us until the Lord takes us Home. Nevertheless, our God-given “faith” (Hebrews 12:2) moves and empowers us to withstand our present distress and remain faithfully obedient to our Lord no matter how severe our circumstances become.