He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the human heart;
yet no one can fathom what God has done from
beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
“He has made everything beautiful in its time”
Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you had
an amazing holiday so far! 🙂
Let’s get started…..
This scripture has really ministered
to me in this season. There are a lot of things I am
waiting on God for and at times I get frustrated, I
get discouraged, I lose sight of things but this verse
brought a lot of things into context. In 2016 I have
resolved to wait on God. There is a reason He wants
me to wait….let me not get ahead of myself. Let me
explain what I am taking about.
The world has conditioned us to think “instant”but God
teaches us to wait. I want you to see
there is a “time” that has to pass as you wait on God. When
you wait on God you put yourself in a position to see His
beauty unravel in your life.
We are too impatient at times.
Let’s look at a passage of scripture for a moment,
“He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as
a slave.
His feet they hurt with shackles;
He was put in chains of iron,
Until the time that his word [of
prophecy regarding his brothers]
came true,
The word of the Lord tested and refined
him.
Psalm 105:19
This passage of scripture in my opinion perfectly
illustrates what I am trying to say.
God gave Joseph a glimpse into his future but
there was a “time” that had to pass. Was it easy,
heck no. He was sold as a slave to a foreign land to a
foreign people. He was in chains and shackles and it
was painful. In the time of waiting he was being refined.
The word tested him. Waiting is never easy friends.
But we see something amazing in the midst of his trials.
God was making something beautiful. At first it seemed
like there was only ugliness but God had a plan. He was
creating something beautiful of his life. Joseph had to wait on God.
Was he confused, most probably, but he continued to trust
in God.
Because God loved Joseph he made him wait!
Just because something hasn’t come to pass in our lives
doesn’t mean God has abandoned us even though at
times it feels like it. Like Joseph, God makes us wait
because He loves us. He makes us wait because He
wants to give us His very best!
Making us wait is His way of showing His love for us.
Waiting is one of the processes God uses to bless us.
As I have waited on God I feel like my love and trust in
Him have been tested to the core. There is nothing like
waiting on God to reveal where your faith and heart are at.
When I got that revelation, I saw impatience for what
it really is.
Impatience stifles God’s beauty in our lives.
If we are impatient we are saying we don’t trust Him.
We must stop being impatient. We must learn to wait
on God.
The way God sees waiting and the way we see waiting
are very different. We must see waiting as an expression
of love, a very real love that God has for us.
I want to see His beauty in my life and even though it’s
hard I will wait on God. I don’t want to disqulaify myself
from His goodness because of impatience. He loves me
and that is why He makes me wait.
My life is in His hands. I have waited for a long time
already but if He is calling me to wait even more
then I will do it because I trust Him!
My encouragement to you friend is, keep on waiting.
God loves you so much and has only the best for you.
Don’t give up or let up. Wait on the Lord. He will come
through on His promise. He will not let you down. He is
making something beautiful in your life.
Will you wait?
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Rolain
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