Waiting For God O.T.

What does it mean to wait for God over time? We always assume, trapped as we are in a linear time framework, that any waiting that we do on the Lord involves us waiting for things that have yet to happen in the future. But why should we assume that God can only work in a straight line from beginning to end? We know that time is only measured unto man and that to God all things are present to His view. Therefore, waiting on the Lord does not only mean waiting for things that have not happened yet. The Lord is able to, from our perspective, retroactively change the past in a way that recontextualizes the significance and value of past experiences in the light of our present circumstances. I'm not talking about time travel or anything like that. But the power of the Atonement has a way to make all things, including all past experiences, work together for our good and His glory. If there is some past pain or trauma or personal tragedy that we have gone through or perhaps are still going through and we can't see how it could possibly benefit us or indeed be anything other than definitive proof that God either doesn't exist or else cruelly despises and hates us, then we have not waited long enough yet. It is hard but we must wait on the Lord, wait not just for some future solace but wait for God to put forth His Almighty power and heal us in such a way that His grace reverberates backwards through time to the very start of our tragedy and ripples forwards through time to the farthest reaches of eternity and, in a way that we cannot now comprehend, somehow transforms our pain and our weakness into joy and strength. If we can't let go of our past trauma, if we can't surrender our resentment for all of the seemingly needless suffering that we endured, I know that if we just hold onto our faith and put our trust in the Atonement of Christ and truly, humbly, stubbornly wait upon the Lord, then there will come a moment where the Lord opens our eyes and lets us see the swirling chaotic beauty that is our life, past, present and future all together before us all at once, and we will understand exactly why we endured and struggled and suffered and hoped against hope and waited for God over time. The power of the Atonement is not some giant, magic delete button that erases all of the bad, ugly things that we have done or that have been done to us and makes them all as if they had never happened. The Power of the Atonement is in beautifying and sanctifying and hallowing all of it - the good, the bad, and the ugly, the past, the present, and the future, the profane, the mundane, and the sacred. Because of Christ's Atonement, if we wait long enough, there will come a day for each of us where we will weep tears of joy to see the full glory and beauty and majesty of God's plan for us and we will be forced to admit that however different our lives may or may not have turned out, they couldn't have been better than this.