[Be] ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord.
—Luke 12:36
Until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which in its own times He shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.
—1 Timothy 6:14-15
Turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for His Son from heaven.
—1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
Waiting on God in heaven, and waiting for His Son from heaven—these two God has joined together. The waiting on God for His presence and power in daily life will be the only true preparation for waiting for Christ in humility and holiness. The waiting for Christ coming to take us to heaven will give the waiting on God its true tone of hopefulness and joy. The Father, who, in His own time, will reveal His Son from heaven, is the God who, as we wait on Him, prepares us for the revelation of His Son. The present life and the coming glory are connected in God and in us.
There is a danger of separating them. It is always easier to be engaged with the Christianity of the past or the future than to be faithful in the Christianity of today. As we look to what God has done in the past, or will do in time to come, the personal claim of present duty and submission to His working may be avoided. All you who say you wait for Christ’s coming, be sure that you wait on God now. The same omnipotent love that is to reveal that glory is working in you even now to prepare you for it.
If you want to learn how to properly wait for His Son from heaven, live even now waiting on God in heaven. Waiting for Christ Himself is so different from waiting for things that may come to pass! The latter any Christian can do; the former, God must work in you every day by His Holy Spirit. Therefore, all you who wait on God, look to Him for grace to wait for His Son from heaven in the Spirit which is from heaven. And, you who want to wait for His Son, wait on God continually to reveal Christ in you.