They Who Wait For Him
Jacob read these words of Isaiah to his people about the house of Israel: “And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me…. Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet; and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah” (2 Nephi 6:7, 13). There are surely many ways that we might define who the people of the Lord are, such as those who keep His commandments or those who covenant with Him or those who have faith in Him. But here the prophet defined the Lord’s people as those who wait for Him. One meaning of this is surely to wait for His physical coming, which the house of Israel did before He came in the m...