A Prayer about Waiting with Patience

Redeeming God,

Many of us are waiting right now: 

for graduation day, 

for a new baby to arrive, 

for a wedding day, 

for a new job or a new direction.

Some are in hard waits: 

Waiting for the end to unemployment

 or the end to a marriage 

or the end of a loved one’s life. 

Whether we are waiting with anticipation 

or waiting in grief, 

we thank you for the saving hope you have given us: 

“we have the firstfruits of the Spirit” (Romans 8:23), 

that is, we know the benefits of being redeemed, 

but we still wait for something 

that will certainly come true: 

the day we experience all the benefits 

of our adoption as your children, 

the day we receive our fully healed and whole 

resurrection bodies (Romans 8:23). 

Because of this profound hope 

we have in your redemption and adoption, 

we can wait for anything on this earth with patience. 

In Jesus’ hope-full name. Amen. 

Read Romans 8:18-25.