GOD'S TIMING

 

8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness.
                                           (2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV)

God is a God of his time. Humans are naturally impatient but God is ever patient.
The book of Ecclesiastes  emphasizes the timing of God and we could see from Genesis , how he created all things in six days and rested on the seventh day. It is so evident when we check through the scripture there are several emphasis on the days ( i.e In the seventh year etc).We get consumed with worry, anxiety because we give timeline to the promises of God. I love this scripture ;

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes,it's the TREE OF LIFE
           ( Proverbs 13:12 ESV)

Before the fall of men, it was explicit that God told men to eat of all except the tree of good and evil.
Why?
God desires that all men may eat of the Tree of life which was mentioned in the scripture above.
The enemy lured Eve turning her mind against God because the enemy knew that the plans of God were for an expected time. It's the same for us as humans. We often forget that every promise of God is life. It comes first as a word then becomes a flesh but the enemy sows different seeds in our heart to lure us from the focus. The focus was never the promise but the giver of the promise.

We cease every opportunity for a second choice but here it was obvious in the life of Abraham that God's timing is the best.
Abraham went for another option after being convinced by his wife to take up another wife who would grant him an issue. Ishmael was born but we saw that Isaac was for an appointed time.
Today, I would like ask this question. What promise of God are you waiting on? His word says ;

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
                                ( Habakkuk 2:3 ESV)
Ishmael was the replica of the promise. The timing of God was Isaac.
Waiting is probably not the easiest thing to do but we must realize that everyone is waiting on God for one thing or the other. Hence, you are not ALONE.

“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”
        ( Psalm 27:14)

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