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.”
This “word” that we “hope” in, is the “word” of prophecy that “the LORD” sent by His Prophets. The contextual message is that we “hope in” His prophetic promises that “he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities” (Psalms 130:8). The “Israel” of old was a prophetic type of the New Testament “Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16) which equally includes the Children of God among Israel as well as all the Gentile nations (Romans 10:12). This blessed “hope” is the doubtless anticipation that, what “God” has “promised” will, without fail, come to pass exactly as He “promised it”; for, He is “God” and He “cannot lie” (Titus 1:2). We have absolute confidence in this “hope” for it rises from our God-given “faith” (Hebrews 11:1; 12:2). When God plants this “faith” within His Children, it serves as the “substance” and “evidence” that, what He “promised” will certainly come to past just as He “promised” it (Hebrews 11:1). Job rested in this blessed “hope”; for, in the midst of his awful trials, he confidently declared, “I know that my redeemer liveth … whom I shall see for myself” (Job 19:25-27). Paul calls it “that blessed hope” (Titus 2:13). And on The Day Of Pentecost, Peter quoted king David, “Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:” (Acts 2:26). We are greatly encouraged by the durability of this “blessed hope”; we’re exhorted to focus upon “the full assurance of hope unto the end” (Hebrews 6:11). And Paul exhorts us in the surety of this “blessed hope”: “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.” (I Thessalonians 5:8)!