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What’s taking Him so long? In all of the hustle and bustle that seems to dominate our lives, we are losing our patience. We want everything now, need everything now, and can be very demanding in getting it now. We have become a nation of stressed out, overworked and ill-mannered people, pushing and shoving our way through life because we don’t have the time to wait on much of anything. It seems that we even have this approach towards our God. We attend church as if it were a drive-thru, getting impatient with the pastor, twisting and shifting in the pews hoping that he will end the service no later than the allotted hour we have budgeted this week. Maybe we need to take a deep breath and look at our time through the eyes of our Lord. “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:8-9(NKJV) Just imagine what 1000 years feels like. How many generations of your family will live and die in 1000 years? This is how God tells time, and how He looks at scheduling things. It may be a good idea to simply relax and have patience with others because God is having patience with us. His Word promises that our God “is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish.” You do not want God to hurry things because it may be you that gets left behind. We all have experienced God’s grace at times, but it seems that these are few and far between according to our way of telling time. But in God’s World, and it is His World, we are right on schedule. We know this because He plans things according to His will, not ours. Maybe it’s time we realize that everything does not happen according to our plan, our world and our will. It all takes place according to God’s great plan for our lives. We just need to trust that God’s plan is a good plan. He tells us this through the Prophet Jeremiah. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 When we trust God to care for us, we also need to realize that He will provide this care on His timetable. We have to learn patience that creates a confidence in our God. We have to take a deep breath and realize that, although we can’t understand what it means to live 1000 years, our God does. He promises to look out for us, but through His eyes, and not ours. Take a deep breath and pray, God will show up eventually. “in the world, not of the world”
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:49:16 +0000

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