FORTY YEARS???? WAITING FOR LONG???? Acts 7:30,33-34 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai....Then the Lord said to him, “...I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.”Forty years was a long time to wait in preparation for a great mission. Yet when God delays, He is not inactive. God delays but He is never late. This is when He prepares His instruments and matures our strength. Then at the appointed time we will rise up and be equal to our task. Even Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and Savior, the Role Model of every believer had thirty years of privacy, growing in wisdom and stature before He began His work. God is never in a hurry. He spends years preparing those He plans to greatly use, and never thinks of the days of preparation as being too long or boring. The most difficult ingredient of suffering is often time. A short, sharp pain is easily endured, but when a sorrow drags on its long and weary way year after monotonous year, returning day after day with the same dull routine of hopeless agony, the heart loses its strength. Without the grace of God, the heart is sure to sink into dismal despair. Have you waited and waited!!! It means you are in for a great mission! David waited patiently even after being anointed King over Israel, Joseph waited patiently and endured hardship, being thrown in the pit, being sold as a slave by his own brothers and finally being thrown in prison for a crime he had not comited but finally the man ended up in being a Prime Minister in a foreign land. This is what God does to those who patiently wait and endure. Am reminded of former President Hon. Mwai Kibaki who waited silently for almost 40 Years, (38 to be specific like the man at the well) to become the President of Kenya. Do not look at the delay but be alert to learn every detail so that when the mission is on, you do not make any mistake! Delay is not denial. Have a blessed Tuesday and God bless!!!
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:38:44 +0000
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