Waiting, Why Is It Taking so Long

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Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint Isaiah.             40:29-31 NKJV.   

            Waiting certainly plays an enormous role in the unfolding story of God's relationship to man. It is God's often repeated way of teaching us that His power is real and that He can answer our prayers without interference and manipulation from us. 

            But we have such trouble getting our will, our time schedules out of the way. Much of the time we act like a child who brings a broken toy to his father to be mended. The father gladly takes the toy and begins to work. Then after a while, childlike impatience takes over. Why is it taking so long? 

            The child stands by, getting his hands in the father's way, offering a lot of meaningless advice and some rather silly criticism. Finally in desperation, he snatches the toy from the father's hands and walks off with it, saying rather bitterly that he hadn't really thought that  his father could fix it anyway. Perhaps it isn't even "his will" to mend my toys.

            Think about this: On the other hand, whenever we trust the LORD enough to leave our "broken toy" with the Father, not only do we eventually get it back gloriously restored, but we are also handed something else, a spiritual plus. We find for ourselves what the saints and mystics affirm, that during the dark waiting period when self-effort had ceased, an astonishing spiritual growth take place in us. Afterwards we have qualities like more patience, more love for the LORD and those around us, more ability to hear the Lord God voice and greater willingness to obey.

Renewal: I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps (Psalm 40:1-2 NKJV).  

Ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart and reveal any areas of unconfessed sin. Acknowledge these to the LORD and thank Him for His forgiveness.

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