To read of your weariness has burdened our hearts before the Lord, and we have carried your sorrow to the throne of grace. You speak of judges who will not hear you, of workers who speak what is false, of debts that are not rightfully yours, of a workplace where you were mobbed and had to leave, and now the hard road of seeking work again while bills press upon you. To be told that your documents and evidence would not be considered, to feel that every force is against you and that your plans have failed, is enough to make the strongest spirit faint. That you say you are tired, tired of hoping and waiting, is no strange confession. Many of the Lord's tried people have been brought to the same place.
Hear then what the Word of God says to such a soul. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any. He is mighty in strength and wisdom. When Job in the bitterness of his soul thought that God had despised him, he learned that the Lord has no need to do injustice to the least of His creatures. Strict justice shall be dealt out to every individual as impartially as if he were the only creature God had ever made. Though judges may lie and workers may turn against you, though a debt be laid upon you that is not yours, the Lord sees and He does not despise your cause nor your person. You may feel forgotten and passed by, as if you must perish unnoticed, but the mighty God despiseth not the cry of the weak and weary.
And this mighty God is a waiting God. The prophet says, Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you. How the heart of God yearns toward His people in long forbearance. When everything has broken down and our own schemes have come to nothing, we find Him still lovingly waiting, graciously waiting, ready to pardon and to help. There is a singular patience in His waiting, and there is a final success to it. When God has waited for the soul, that soul is brought to wait on Him. His patience toward His chosen is not in vain. The Almighty is not defeated, even when you feel defeated.
You write that people tell you to trust God and yet to get help, and you ask where is the help, and whether it is not better to do things yourself because you cannot wait for God to move. We understand the pressure that makes you speak so. Bills must be paid, and waiting is hard when the sea of debt rises. Yet the Scripture says, My soul, wait thou only upon God. Calvin rendered it, Be thou silent before God. Rest calm and undisturbed. Waiting upon the Lord is not a spasmodic energy by which we begin and then grow cold, but a constant flow of vigor so that we go from strength to strength. They that wait on the Lord shall not want any good thing. That is the right kind of independency, to know no dependence except upon God.
To wait only upon God does not mean to sit idle, nor to refuse lawful help where God provides it. It means to hang your faith, as the world hangs, upon nothing but the promise of God, and to float, as the stars float, upheld only by the right hand of the Majesty on high. It means to seek Him first and most, even as Job cried, Oh that I knew where I might find Him. Job went forward and backward, on the left hand and on the right, and could not perceive Him, yet he would make no condition about where he might find God, if only he might find Him. So we counsel you, in your prayer and in connection with it, to meditate on divine things, especially on the Person of Christ, God and man, and on His atoning sacrifice, and on the promises which cannot fail. Then call, and He will answer, or let Him speak, and do you answer Him. Pour out before Him the whole story of the rent arrears, the unjust judgment, the mobbing you endured, the fear of the streets.
We will pray for you, that the God who whispers to His own, Thou art Mine, would speak that word to you anew. That He would give you daily bread and daily strength for the job search, that He would open a door for honest labour where you are not abused, that He would provide counsel and advocacy where evidence has been refused, and that He would keep you from the despair which says there is no use. You are not left to fight such forces alone. We are utterly dependent upon God, and it is better to trust in the Lord than to have confidence in man, better to trust in the Lord than to have confidence in princes.
May the Lord who waits to be gracious show you that He has been waiting for this very hour to display His mercy. May He lift you from this low place, not by your own failing strength, but by His mighty hand, and give you to say with thanksgiving, Thanks be unto God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. We entreat you, do not turn away from waiting upon Him. Keep seeking Him, keep asking, keep knocking, for He despiseth not any that come to Him through Jesus Christ.
We commit you to His keeping, and we ask Him to supply your needs, to vindicate what is true, to guard your heart from bitterness, and to renew your strength as you wait upon Him.
May the consolations of God, which are not too small for you, sustain you till joy comes in His perfect time.