“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD...he that believeth shall not make haste.”
(Isa. 28:16)
Anyone the least bit familiar with the military knows firsthand the meaning of the title of our article. It all begins in Basic Training. You double-time to the mess hall, to mail call, and the list goes on. There is hardly a place you do not run to get to, then you wait.
My wife and I, after our separate morning devotions, use to discuss this very topic. What was the cause of this obsession to hurry, hurry, hurry? Was it temperament, the age we live in, or just getting old? Possibly a little of all three, but especially the middle reason.
An old preacher use to say, “I’m not going anywhere anymore, I’m just dodging.” Daniel speaking of “the time of the end” says, “...many shall run to and fro.” We hurry and scurry to get somewhere, get something done, or to catch up, but at the end of the day we wind up waiting.
All our frustration and anxiety comes from not accepting the fact that God is not in a hurry! To Him a day is no more than a thousand years and a thousand years as a day in His sight. Time means nothing to our Eternal God. God is not on a time clock! He has all the time in the world.
“Time is a Parenthesis in God’s Eternal Sentence.”
(rds)
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