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Give it to me NOW!!!

So a lot of prayer and time has been spent considering a big decision coming up in my life.  We are excited about the prospect and it is something that has been on my heart for YEARS, it just seems like now is the time to put the plan into action.  I am not quite ready to say 100% that I am going to do it, but I am really excited how God opens up doors and can make things happen.  A lot is just clicking and falling into place and family as well as friends and influential people are being beyond supportive, encouraging me and making my pipe dream potentially become a reality.  With all that said, I want to talk about waiting. 

God’s timing is really the best timing.  I have really wanted things in the past and felt a strong desire for them, but things didn’t click, they didn’t fall into place.  I wasn’t letting God have control of the thing that I wanted to accomplish and therefore, it ultimately failed.  There have been times that God has made something amazing happen and then He tells me to wait.  Well, I am not a patient person.  The sermon at our church this past week was on patience and I have to tell you, I was discouraged.  I was ready to give up on my dream after that sermon because I was not 100% at peace about it and I didn’t feel that my husband was (even though he was) and maybe it just wasn’t the right timing etc…  Well, I prayed and asked for a peace and for doors to open up – and they have BIG TIME. 

It makes me think of Moses and the Israelites.  Moses was called to save his people from Pharaoh.  A true calling!  He followed through and did it.  He did what God commanded him and then they were in the dessert.  Stuck in the dessert.  While in the desert, it wasn’t very fun I am sure.  They had to wait for God’s promised land.  They had to have patience.  I think if I were Moses, I would have probably said, “God, this is taking too long, we have been wondering around far too long, I am just going to set up shop here- I am sure the promised land is great and all, but I want it now.”  Sounds familiar right?

As a generation and a people, we are so used to the NOW NOW NOW…  We need information and whip out of phones and get it.  We get frustrated if the internet is not fast enough of if the drive through restaurant is taking too long.  We get frustrated if the credit card machine isn’t working at a store and they have to actually type in the numbers (how archaic!).  We are so used to the benefit of “now” we don’t want to wait for anything.  We see what our parents have and we want what they have now- forget that when they started, they had to start small just like we do.  It is so easy to say – “GOD- I want it NOW!”  I think of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie- “I want the World…  I want the whole World…  Give it to me… NOW!!!”  People do drugs and abuse alcohol because they want to feel good now…  The obesity rate is up because people want to eat what they want to eat and want to do it now…  The premarital pregnancy rate is up because people want their satisfaction now…

So often, when our patience runs out, we miss out on blessings.  We miss out on what God has in store for us, which is so much better than what we could have ever have taken for the here and now.  We don’t always understand God’s timing, but it is the best. 

“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”  Isaiah 40:13 ESV

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 ESV

But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” Luke 18:27 ESV

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