“Sometimes God holds you back temporarily until the road is safe and clear to continue. Be thankful for the stall.”
God’s Protection Includes Delays!!!
Habakkuk 2:3 “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
We have lived in a very fast world. We have been able through advanced technology and masterful engineering to have most anything instantly or at least by Amazon’s Prime overnight shipping! Recently we are having to learn a bit of patience. There are so many manufacturing delays and supply issues etc., that it can be so frustrating to put it mildly!
There are also DELAYS in our spiritual journeys that can cause us to feel anxious and frustrated. However, we must remember that God’s plan also includes God’s timing!
Sometimes we have to PRAISE Him in the STALL!!
“What if Abraham would’ve took what it looked like, twenty-five years waiting for a promise that God gave him? Why, …he’d never been the father of little Isaac. But he believed God’s Word and wouldn’t turn It loose. But he watered it day and night, strong, giving praise unto God. Oh, when Sarah would say, “Honey, it’s been twenty-five years ago since the promise was made, here I am nearly a hundred.” He’d say, “Praise God, we’re going to have it anyhow, ‘cause God said so, and that settles it.” That’s right. He knowed the nature of God because he was a friend of God. He knowed how to take Him, because he knowed that His promises, no matter how foolish they looked, or how simple they looked, or how unreasonable they looked, they were true because God said so, and that settled it forever.”