It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian doesn’t learn without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier for God’s soldiers than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, doesn’t know what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait.

Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the situation before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul on the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God.

But wait in faith. Express your unshaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keeps you tarrying even until midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not linger.

Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the situation as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying,

“Now, Lord, not my will, but Yours be done. I don’t know what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until You shall halt the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if You keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon You alone, O God, and my spirit waits for You in the full conviction that You will yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower.”

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Attribution: Morning by Morning by Charles H. Spurgeon, August 30 entry.

“I have seen his ways, but I will heal him.” — Isaiah 57:18

It is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease.
Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by mortals, but even then the honor is to be given to God who gives virtue to medicine, and bestows power to the human frame to cast off disease.

As for spiritual sicknesses, these remain with the great Physician alone.
He claims it as His prerogative, “I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal”, and one of the Lord’s choice titles is Jehovah Rophi, the Lord that heals you.

“I will heal your wounds,” is a promise which could not come from the lips of a mortal, but only from the mouth of the eternal God.

On this account the psalmist cried to the Lord:

“O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony,”
and again,
“Heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

For this, also, the godly praise the name of the Lord, saying:

“He heals all our diseases.”

He who made us can restore us; He who was the Creator of our nature can new create it.

What a transcendent comfort it is that in the person of Jesus “all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.”

My soul, whatever your disease may be, this great Physician can heal you.
If He is God, there can be no limit to His power.

Come then with the blind eye of darkened understanding, come with the limping foot of wasted energy, come with the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of shivering despondency, come just as you are, for He who is God can certainly restore you to health.

None shall restrain the healing virtue which proceeds from Jesus our Lord.
Legions of devils have been made to own the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has He been baffled.

All His patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the future, and you shall be one among them, my friend, if you would just rest in Him this night.

— Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (August 30, Evening)