We are all in such a hurry! Yet the best things that God has for us often take time to mature. That’s why we must patiently wait on Him and not run before Him. Someone has said, “Give God time, and even when the knife flashes in the air, the ram will be seen in the thicket. Give God time, and even when Pharaoh’s host is on Israel’s heels, a path through the waters will be suddenly opened. Give God time, and when the bed of the brook is dry, Elijah shall hear the Guiding Voice.”
Hebrews 12:1 tells us to “run with endurance” the race set before us. George Matheson wrote, “We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as t the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet there is a patience that I believe to be harder – the patience that can run. To lie down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the stroke of adverse fortune, implies a strength greater still: it is the power to work under stress; to have a great weight at your heart and still run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform the daily tasks. It is a Christlike thing! The hardest thing is that most of us are called to exercise our patience, not in the sickbed but in the street.” To wait is hard, to do it with “good courage” is harder!
Do not try to hasten the unfolding of God’s bud of promise; you will only spoil the perfect flower. “In your patience possess your souls” (Luke 21:19). – Henry G. Bosch
Wait on the Lord; in confidence
And expectation wait;
His promises are ever sure,
His mercies truly great. – Shepard
The STOPS of a good man are ordered by the Lord as well as his STEPS!
- April 8, 1986, Our Daily Bread
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