THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14
“My
times are in your hand.” Ps 31:15 NKJV
LEARN
TO WAIT
The Psalmist writes, “I trust You, O Lord; I say,
‘You are my God.’ My times are in Your hand” (vv. 14-15 NKJV). As you walk with
God, you’ll find that you spend more time waiting
than you do receiving. And when you
receive what you’re waiting for, then you’ll begin waiting for something else!
So if you don’t learn to wait with joy, you’ll live in frustration. Paul
writes, “Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season, we shall reap,
if we faint not” (Gal 6:9). “Due season” is when God knows the time is right,
not when you think it is. God has set
a time for accomplishing things in your life, so you might as well settle down
and wait because that’s when it will happen, and not before. God knows what you need, when you need it, and how
to get it to you. You ask, “And what am I supposed to do while I’m waiting?”
Thrust Him! One Bible teacher writes: “God has taught me to keep living the
life I now have while I’m waiting for the things that are in my heart to come
to pass. We become so intent on trying to give birth to the next thing that we
neither enjoy nor take of the things at hand. I had a vision from God ten years
before I began to see it fulfilled. During those years I believe I missed a lot
of joy by trying to give birth outside of God’s timing. Learn to enjoy where
you are, while you are waiting to get to where you want to be.”
Taken
from the Word for you Today devotional
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