Sharing my writing online gave a freedom without guilt that was appealing. I also wanted to be kinder to the inbox of my friends who, God bless them, graciously accepted my numerous emails of poems and other "hot off the press" writitng sessions. I hope you are able to smile, maybe laugh out loud or nod in agreement. Whatever you do while reading these posts - I thank you sincerely for the time you spent.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Though it tarries....wait on God's appointed time
As we think on God's timing we can conclude that it is perfect. God is not a God of confusion. No, He is a God of order. Everything He does or did is intentional and at an appointed time. Summer will never preceed spring and the moon will never seek to outshine the sun. Yes. God has an appointed time. Turn if you will to Habakkuk 2,
Habakkuk 2:2-3 NKJV
Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
Some of us have put away the written tablets of our God given vision. Like Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, we prayed in the days of our youth and received no answer. We have quelled our disappointment and logically accepted that the time for giving birth (to the vision) has long since past. We have dried our tear stained eyes and are pressing on in service for God. We are not living in the tomorrow or the yesterday and might have shouted loud hallelujahs to the Now timing of God. Yet , we are not holding on to the vision. Yes - just like good old Zachariah we have buried the vision away.
Beloved who told you that God said no? Luke 1 tells us that the angel told Zachariah that God heard his prayer! The fact that Z himself was at a loss upon the angels message tells me the prayer was not recent. He might have asked what prayer? He forgot while God's appointed time was about to speak and not lie. The tarrying was over. Only, Z was not waiting. He didn't even think it was a possibility. Does this sound like a page from your journal? What we miss is that the vision was never ours. Gods plans remains and are in perfect alignment. These people that were well past the age of having children were to be pregnant with the forerunner of Jesus Christ!
So we need to wait and trust God to fulfill His vision in our lives at the appointed (set, fixed, pre-destined) time.
They that wait upon the Lord shall be renewed in their strength. They shall run and not get weary. They shall walk and not faint. (Isa 40:31). Those who trust in the Lord and acknowledge Him in all their ways are guaranteed their paths will be God directed. (Prov 3:5-6).
Wait with good courage my friend, though it tarries....wait on God's appointed time.
God bless you all. YER💕
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