“And so, after he [Abraham] had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.” “For ye [us] have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” The early believers, spoken of in the Hebrew letter, were on the verge of giving up. Their endurance was running out. Their faith was faltering. They had not seen God’s promise to them fulfilled.
The reason for their dilemma (and ours) is that we do not realize there is a time lapse between God’s promise and His performance of that promise. There is a parenthesis of an indefinite time period between them. In between these two, we are to have patience. Remember that “whatsoever things were written aforetime [about Abraham, etc.] were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
The Divine advice to us is, “Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” Our blessed Lord in His last words to His disciples, before He went away were, “Wait for the promise...”
“The Being of God may as well fail, as the promise of God.”
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