Daily Discipleship - Day 339: It Is Good to Wait Quietly
May 3, 2026
Daily Discipleship • Day 339 • Sunday, April 4, 2027
It Is Good to Wait Quietly
Lamentations 3:25–26
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta — Missionaries of Charity founder and Nobel Peace laureate, whose years of spiritual dryness and patient perseverance in God's silence make this Lamentation resonate with unmatched authenticity.
ὑπομεῖναι
hupomeinai · Greek LXX“to wait / to remain under / to endure”
hupomenŏ (hupo + menŏ, to remain under) means to stay in place under pressure—to endure without fleeing. It is the word of active, patient endurance rather than passive resignation. Combined with hēsuchasai (to be quiet, still), Jeremiah commends a waiting that is both active and restful.
Lamentations is a book of raw grief—the ruin of Jerusalem, the apparent abandonment of God's people. Yet in its center, the poet pivots from lament to trust: the LORD is good. And the path to experiencing that goodness is not frantic activity but quiet waiting. The word for 'wait quietly' combines endurance and stillness.
Mother Teresa waited through fifty years of interior darkness—feeling God's absence while serving in His name. Her journals reveal a woman who stayed under the weight of silence without fleeing. She found that quiet endurance was itself a form of faithfulness. In whatever silence or dryness you face today—the LORD is good. Wait quietly for His salvation.
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