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To comprehend in general how Gods time works, we have to look into the bible. In the book of
2 Pet 3:9 says, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone come to repentance." 2 Pet 3:9
When I go through this part of the Bible, I really feel like going into dialog with the writer. In my carnal thinking, I feel that God really takes time in everything he does. My mind sometimes believes that it takes him time to serve the wicked what they deserve. I feel that his coming back is going to take a lot of time. he sees the suffering going on in the world and I don’t know why he does not want to offer instant help to the starving and unhealthy.
However, in my continuous reading of the Bible, I found out that He is not slow in doing that which he promises, "as what many people takes slowness to be." The problem doesn’t lie with God, but rather with us.our expectation of when he should react is obviously not how he does his things. You see, He perspective towards the world and all its activities are completely different from ours. My views, feelings, and convictions are just from that of a carnal, human who's understanding are restricted. But his views are from a supernatural, an eternal and divine being are from that of being an eternal, righteous, omniscient God.
This reading made me know that what I have in mind to do which is preaching his salvation to many so that we all could be saved is actually what God himself want to accomplish and that my assumption of his slowliness is incorrect.
all through my life, I have wished that things should happen almost immediately. However, as I advance, I came to understand that is almost not possible. That all I need is to be patients. I have had to wait for people to change.that I have to allow difficult situations to change people.
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Peter 3:8 lets us know that with the Lord a thousand years is like a day. Evidently, time is not something God has to worry about. He does not make decisions based on the clock, calendar or length of men's lives. He is not in a hurry. He is patient. Time is not a factor for Him. It is for me. It is for you. It is not for Him.
Whenever I kneel to pray, I ask God to answer my prayers quickly. I'll say things like, " Oh Lord, I I really need to pay my house rent this week?" or "Father, I really need to be employed by the end of this year."
Now understand, a God who sees no difference between a thousand years and a day is not going to be in a hurry to get my house rent paid at week and neither is He going to be in a rush to get me employed by the end of the year.
He does not operate within the elements of or for the purpose of time. He only operates within the confines and boundaries of a redemptive purpose. Peter 3:9 lets us know that his purpose is not timely, but redemptive. It only has to do with souls and spiritual maturity.
If we have a lesson to learn by waiting, then He makes us wait. If we will grow spiritually or mature in our faith by His delay, then He delays. It really has nothing at all to do with our immediate physical needs. It has everything to do with where we are at in the redemptive process.
Look at Moses. he served over forty years in Pharaoh's court and schools of higher learning. For what? So he can be a lonely Shepard for the next 40 years. Now I have to admit... at about the end of the first year in the desert watching sheep when I was trained to lead a nation, I would say, "God you messed up!" Moses was put into a position in that desert where he was forced to learn to wait on God to the point that he had to release all personal understanding of time.
This was going to be absolutely necessary when he began leading the nation of Israel in the wilderness. Forty more years of waiting on God in the wilderness was going to be the result of his 40 years of waiting on God in the desert. God knew that the nation of Israel had to learn the same lesson of waiting on His timing and He needed Moses to lead the nation since he had already learned that lesson.
Neither was God going to give them the promised land overnight. Ex 23:28-29 tells us that He would not drive their enemies out in a single year, but rather little by little until they had increased enough to take the land.
The motive for God's delay has nothing to do with a purposeful impediment. He is simply waiting for our maturity level to rise to a place where we can then occupy the land.
God's timing is not about time. It is about the redemption process. When we are ready for the growth, it will come. He does not delay. He is not late. He is waiting for our church. Let's prepare Him a habitation.