"And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him." Isaiah 30:18
It is the waiting that we cannot stand; if anything, we want it now, dad gum it! As Mr. Chambers put it, this is where we so often fail: God is never in a hurry, but we are always in such a frightful hurry. This opportunity must come now! This door must open now! This soul must be saved now! This ministry must take off now! Like Martha, we are rushing about trying to get things done while our Lord stares in wonder at what all the fuss is about.
Noah preached a hundred and twenty years before the flood finally came, and he saw no converts. Abraham was one-hundred years old before the promised child came, and died without ever seeing the Promised Land. Moses spent forty years tending sheep before returning to deliver Israel, and spent forty more years wandering the wilderness before he ever saw the Promised Land. Israel itself spent seventy years in exile, and it was two-thousand years before it became a nation again. Jesus' own disciples had to wait three years before they understood who He truly was, and the Church had to wait for the Spirit. "Blessed are all they that wait for God."
We have too many "blasts of hurry." God is not a microwave burrito: His purposes are fulfilled in His time, not ours.
"The Faster I go, I find
I am only Running from You
Who are always at Ease and Peace.
Keep me close to Your Bleeding Side..."
-Jon Vowell
It is the waiting that we cannot stand; if anything, we want it now, dad gum it! As Mr. Chambers put it, this is where we so often fail: God is never in a hurry, but we are always in such a frightful hurry. This opportunity must come now! This door must open now! This soul must be saved now! This ministry must take off now! Like Martha, we are rushing about trying to get things done while our Lord stares in wonder at what all the fuss is about.
Noah preached a hundred and twenty years before the flood finally came, and he saw no converts. Abraham was one-hundred years old before the promised child came, and died without ever seeing the Promised Land. Moses spent forty years tending sheep before returning to deliver Israel, and spent forty more years wandering the wilderness before he ever saw the Promised Land. Israel itself spent seventy years in exile, and it was two-thousand years before it became a nation again. Jesus' own disciples had to wait three years before they understood who He truly was, and the Church had to wait for the Spirit. "Blessed are all they that wait for God."
We have too many "blasts of hurry." God is not a microwave burrito: His purposes are fulfilled in His time, not ours.
"The Faster I go, I find
I am only Running from You
Who are always at Ease and Peace.
Keep me close to Your Bleeding Side..."
-Jon Vowell
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