"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage." Psalm 27:14
We are all so much in a hurry! We live in an impatient age Yet the best things that God has for us often take time to mature, and we must patiently wait on God at such occasions and not run before Him. Someone has said, "Give God time, and even when the knife flashes in the air, the ram will be seen in the thicket. Give God time, and even when Pharaoh's host is on Israel's heels, a path through the waters will be suddenly opened. Give God time, and when the bed of the brook is dry, Elijah shall hear the Guiding Voice."
God's delays are not denials;
You will find Him true,
Working through the hardest trials
What is best for you.
We are told to "run with patience" the race which is set before us. George Matheson has a wise observation in regard to this. He said, "We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards the couch of the invalid. Yet there is a patience which I believe to be harder - the patience which can run. To lie down in the time of grief, to be quiet under the stroke of adverse fortune, implies a great strength; but I know of something which implies a strength greater still: it is the power to work under a stroke; to have a great weight at your heart and still to run; to have a deep anguish in your spirit and still perform the daily tasks. It is a Christ-like thing! The hardest thing is that most of us are called to exercise our patience, not in bed, but in the street." To wait is hard, to do it with "good courage" is harder!
Do not try to hasten the unfolding of God's bud of promise; you will only spoil the perfect flower. "In patience possess your soul."
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