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To comprehend in general how Gods time works, we have to look into the bible. In the book of
2 Pet 3:9 says, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone come to repentance." 2 Pet 3:9
When I go through this part of the Bible, I really feel like going into dialog with the writer. In my carnal thinking, I feel that God really takes time in everything he does. My mind sometimes believes that it takes him time to serve the wicked what they deserve. I feel that his coming back is going to take a lot of time. he sees the suffering going on in the world and I don’t know why he does not want to offer instant help to the starving and unhealthy.
However, in my continuous reading of the Bible, I found out that He is not slow in doing that which he promises, "as what many people takes slowness to be." The problem doesn’t lie with God, but rather with us.our expectation of when he should react is obviously not how he does his things. You see, He perspective towards the world and all its activities are completely different from ours. My views, feelings, and convictions are just from that of a carnal, human who's understanding are restricted. But his views are from a supernatural, an eternal and divine being are from that of being an eternal, righteous, omniscient God.
This reading made me know that what I have in mind to do which is preaching his salvation to many so that we all could be saved is actually what God himself want to accomplish and that my assumption of his slowliness is incorrect.
all through my life, I have wished that things should happen almost immediately. However, as I advance, I came to understand that is almost not possible. That all I need is to be patients. I have had to wait for people to change.that I have to allow difficult situations to change people.
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Peter 3:8 lets us know that with the Lord a thousand years is like a day. Evidently, time is not something God has to worry about. He does not make decisions based on the clock, calendar or length of men's lives. He is not in a hurry. He is patient. Time is not a factor for Him. It is for me. It is for you. It is not for Him.
Whenever I kneel to pray, I ask God to answer my prayers quickly. I'll say things like, " Oh Lord, I I really need to pay my house rent this week?" or "Father, I really need to be employed by the end of this year."
Now understand, a God who sees no difference between a thousand years and a day is not going to be in a hurry to get my house rent paid at week and neither is He going to be in a rush to get me employed by the end of the year.
He does not operate within the elements of or for the purpose of time. He only operates within the confines and boundaries of a redemptive purpose. Peter 3:9 lets us know that his purpose is not timely, but redemptive. It only has to do with souls and spiritual maturity.
If we have a lesson to learn by waiting, then He makes us wait. If we will grow spiritually or mature in our faith by His delay, then He delays. It really has nothing at all to do with our immediate physical needs. It has everything to do with where we are at in the redemptive process.
Look at Moses. he served over forty years in Pharaoh's court and schools of higher learning. For what? So he can be a lonely Shepard for the next 40 years. Now I have to admit... at about the end of the first year in the desert watching sheep when I was trained to lead a nation, I would say, "God you messed up!" Moses was put into a position in that desert where he was forced to learn to wait on God to the point that he had to release all personal understanding of time.
This was going to be absolutely necessary when he began leading the nation of Israel in the wilderness. Forty more years of waiting on God in the wilderness was going to be the result of his 40 years of waiting on God in the desert. God knew that the nation of Israel had to learn the same lesson of waiting on His timing and He needed Moses to lead the nation since he had already learned that lesson.
Neither was God going to give them the promised land overnight. Ex 23:28-29 tells us that He would not drive their enemies out in a single year, but rather little by little until they had increased enough to take the land.
The motive for God's delay has nothing to do with a purposeful impediment. He is simply waiting for our maturity level to rise to a place where we can then occupy the land.
God's timing is not about time. It is about the redemption process. When we are ready for the growth, it will come. He does not delay. He is not late. He is waiting for our church. Let's prepare Him a habitation.
God's time is always the best, many a times when we pray or ask something form God, he may say we should wait because it is not the right time.....He has good plan fot us only if we trust and believe in him.
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This is definitely a seasonal reminder that God time is the best.......thanks for sharing this post my friend
God's time is indeed the best. Sometimes when we make requests to God and it is not honoured immediately, we should learn to wait on Him. Waiting on God could be very rewarding, he has reasons for all the things that he does. This is a fine one from you Lenawrite.
God's time is not the same as that of man. He knows the right time for everything and he makes everything right for us at the very best and perfect time.
This is an interesting steemchurch article. God's time is definitely the best. Believers recognize that fact.
Yes! The difficulty in it is waiting for the actual time. We have to be patient in order to get to experience it.
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Hello lenawrite, good to have you at the steem church today.
A fine post about God's timing. This is more related to faith. If we have a strong faith in God, we'd surely wait on him.
God’s time is always the best though sometimes we may not know but if we trust him we'd wait.
When we ask God for something and it seems to delay, we often seem to love our faith and trust in God. We should never forget that God delays our prayers for different reasons. He may be testing us or strenghtening our faith . Faith always prevails in the end.
God's time is always the best, and He does things in times that will suite it. So as a Christian we must understand the ways of God.
We must have faith in God, God's time is the best ,he will never forsake us.... Great post
God's timing is different frm man's own, he's his the best, he knows when it is time to take actions and when it is time to leave it be.
Nice write up @lenawrite. I am blessed
The timing of God, a topic that regardless of the amount of time it is talked about, still can be shared. This is because we have to constantly be reminded that we have to wait for God's time. Because our perception of time as humans differs from God's perception of time
Good morning lena u write awesome post this days
It really nice to have u as a member of the steemchurch
Your post today is an eye opener to many believers of the gospel
Yea! Very powerful! God's timing is not our own timing. His ways are not our ways. That's why are true believers we should be submissive and compliant to His will and timing and also prepare Him a place that He may dwell in.
God bless you buddy @lenawrite
We alway realize God time is the best no matter what we do in life,as christians we should always seek instruction from God when waiting upon the lord
Just like the wisest man in the bible said that time and chance happens to everything on earth. Let us wait for our turn because he never sleeps and neither does he slumber
Beautifully written. For some reason I am reminded of the Old Testment civil system/laws where certain crimes were immediately punishable by death. Now here in America, sentence against an evil crime are delayed for years.
Eccl 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. I wonder how fearful people can be if they knew that their deeds can be punished by the chair!
Aside from that somewhat morbid thought. Your thoughts on God's time table in relationship to our carnal nature is so true! God lives in the past, present and future and time does not limit him. He created time! He can exist outside of time.
One day, we can have all the answers to why God delays our prayers...or sometimes plainly says no.
Over the years I have come to learn that: God's time is not our time, He does not have to work in our schedule; God's plan is not our plan, He knows what is the best for us as we can't see the future; and God's economy is totally different than the world's economy, He would send His workers (along with crazy amount of resources) to places where people have yet to hear the Good News, and sometimes just to reach an individual. :)
In the meantime, I have posted this post late last night, "Why Don’t We Care About the Slaughter of Nigerian Christians? ACT NOW!" Would you consider to join the prayer movement for our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world?
When we ask God for something and it seems to delay, we often seem to love our faith and trust in God. We should never forget that God delays our prayers for different reasons. He may be testing us or strenghtening our faith . Faith always prevails in the end.
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