In Leviticus chapter thirteen we find the law of the leper. While reading this portion of scripture, I was struck by the oft repeated seven day waiting period before he could know the results of the priest’s evaluation. Any of us who have had a serious medical condition can relate to this patient in waiting. What agony he, along with his family, must have gone through. Yet this is the way God has ordained life. It seems to be one long waiting period.
We wait for a child to be born; we wait for advancement; we wait for graduation; we wait for a meal to be prepared; we wait and wait and wait. We are impatient creatures; we want life to be instantaneous. But God is never, and can never, be rushed. Isaiah tells us “…therefore will the Lord wait…blessed are all they that wait for him.” It’s the patient people who are the blessed people. Whenever you find God doing something “suddenly” in the scriptures you will find a long period of waiting leading up to the event. Pentecost came suddenly, but only after a fifty day wait.
Has it been a long night for you, dear one? Just wait a little longer, “…joy cometh in the morning.”
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