I have been out of work for months and the search is crawling along. How do I stay patient and keep trusting God with this?

“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”

David wrote often about waiting, and he did it as a man who spent years anointed as king while living in caves. The Hebrew word carries the sense of a cord pulled taut, of active tension rather than passivity. Waiting on God in this psalm is a strenuous thing, which will be a relief to anyone who has found the last few months exhausting.

“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”

James writes to scattered Jewish Christians under real economic pressure, some of them defrauded by wealthy landowners. He points them at farmers, who cannot make anything grow faster and still get up and work the field. The comparison is honest about delay, and it assumes you keep doing the work while the outcome stays outside your control.