Hurry Up and Wait

“I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.
 I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:2-3

And I’ll bring all this to pass before your next birthday!

Well no, that part wasn’t spoken.

Still, we sometimes act as if the promises God has made have to happen as soon as we receive them. 

But as you look at what God spoke to Abram do you see a time frame given? 

 Nope, none there.

And remember Abram was already 75 years young when God called him to leave his country, his people and his family.

Surely that step of faith would require instant fulfillment of all God spoke, right?

Nope, didn’t happen.

 As a matter of fact, it was many years before Abram saw the first answers to what God had spoken.

Maybe God has you in a waiting mode.

Like the plane that can’t land without air traffic controls’ say, so you feel like you are in a holding pattern doing nothing but going in circles.

But God’s ‘wait’ has purpose.

Through the wait He is renewing your strength.

Through the wait He is building your trust.

Through the wait He is depositing perseverance, patience and faith in you.   

When I was in the military you often would hear someone sarcastically say:

“Hurry up and wait”

You recognized full well the contradiction in the phrase

but also identified very easily with the sentiment.

We don’t like to wait, especially in today’s society.

But God has a purpose in making you wait and He has an

appointed time for every event of your life.      

Learn to wait for His perfect timing.

In your haste, don’t create a man made solution.

Let His perfect will be done in your life!