Don't you hope,pray or even wish sometimes you could just skip or fast forward certain days, obstacles, destinations or even activities to get to the main thing? That main goal or destination?,which would definitely be amazing and super exciting when you finally get there or achieve it? I for one know i am one of those people. Sometimes i'm just like''God hurry up and bring Idris Elba to me" lol but that difficult part!! That difficult part of having to actually wait and be patient for the right time, when i would finally meet my future Huba and all he'd be able to say is ''Oh My, where have you been all my life, future Mrs. Elba''. Don't laugh, i am actually very serious lol. But Yh, that difficult part. One of the areas I’m constantly working on is being patient and waiting on God’s timing.
The Bible says in 2 Chronicles 15:7,'' But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded ''.
It is not an easy thing to wait on something and be patient as well whiles you wait. Joyce Meyer once said, ''Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act whiles you are waiting''.We might know how to wait, but how we act whiles we actually wait is the most important thing and that is Patience.This also determines how we receive what we actually have been asking and praying for.
Imagine you are a 10 year old and your parents make a promise to you that on your 11th birthday, they would get you that Game Boy you have been asking and praying for,for as long as you could remember. From that point till your 11th Birthday, your morning's,afternoon's and evening's are focused on that gadget and how you are going to hold onto it tight,take it everywhere with you and fall madly in love with it. You get agitated and fidgety,always wining about how you want it now because you just cant wait till that day. Maybe sometimes yo say to yourself, ''okay today i would be calm and just wait till my birthday'' and the next second you are screaming''mummy i want it now, i can't wait anymore''.A day that isn't actually the D day comes and you finally receive that Game Boy.
When daddy hands it over to you,it is not complete. It did not come with a charger,a case to put it in or even any disk's to put in to actually play. Then you look up and ask your parents why? and the response is,''well your behavior and how you acted before your birthday was very impatient and we realized you could not wait, so we got it for you earlier due to your nagging and wining, but unfortunately this is what they had so we had to get this''. You were able to wait for other days to pass by, but you were not patient enough to wait for that actual day to come. What if the shop your parents got it from, on that day run out of stock and the new stock would have come the day before your birthday and they would have been selling the limited edition Game Boy's, but due to how you were very impatient, you got the Game Boy alright, but it was not complete, it wasn't what they planned to get for you.
This is how i believe it is with God as well. There might be something you have been asking for, something you have been praying about every day. Every opportunity you get to pray and talk to God about that particular thing but you start to get impatient and you ask God'' God why hasn't it come, why hasn't he or she come?, i can't wait anymore".Then all of a sudden,one day, He finally says, well my child,here you go. Your constant complaining worried me so here you go, this isn't what i had planned to give you,but here you go.If you had waited a bit longer for it,he or she to come in my perfect timing, but oh well, here you go'. The process of waiting and being patient is the difficult part, but at the end of it all, it is worth it.The waiting, the praying, the sitting still and trusting God to blow your mind, at the end, you say to yourself, ''this was definitely worth waiting on Gods time.
God is a good God.His love for His children surpasses our own human understanding. So ask yourself this, why would he intentionally hold something this good from me? Sunni, it isn't that He is holding it back from you, He is preparing you for that amazing thing. He wants it to remind you of His goodness and how true His love for you is anytime you look or receive that blessing.He knows what is good for you, when you should receive it and how you would appreciate it. Be still and know that He is God. Trust in Him. Wait and be patient whiles you wait. it is not easy, i am still learning how to be patient whiles i wait, but when i think about how His blessing is going to blow my entire mind away, i get extra excited and stand still, waiting on Him.
It is the difficult part, but it can be the easiest for you. Continue to stay true to yourself. Hold on, He is going to do it. Mediate on His word, remind yourself of His goodness and prepare your heart for His blessing.
GALATIANS 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
You got this Pumpkin!
with Love,
DOS!
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