Feb 15, 2009

Patience and the Eternal

“God waited...” Isaiah tells us what to do at a time like this: “And therefore will the Lord wait...blessed are all they that wait for him.” Waiting on a waiting God. This is not an easy thing for we who are eternally impatient time-checkers to wait on an eternal, timeless God. One of whom it is said, a day in His sight is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. God is never in a hurry—we are. It is well to remember, if we have eternity on our side, we can afford to wait.

There is no Big Ben in Heaven, everything is measured by eternity. God’s clock has no hands and His calendar has no days. Therefore, settle it; our eternal God is going to take His good old time, and nothing or no one is going to hurry Him up. If we will but patiently wait for Him to accomplish our deepest desires, we will find, “He [makes] everything beautiful in his time.”

To lengthen my patience is the best way to shorten my trouble. (Puritan saying)

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