GOD IS NOT SLOW

DAY 344

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

The promise in question today was about the return of Jesus, and Peter answered it with the words in the text which we have read. This is answer is however not true just for that one promise, it is applicable to every other promise of God.

So just to rephrase the text, “You may think God is slow if you gauge events through the human sense of time. Of course, He gives speed, but God does not hasten men into seasons for which they are unprepared”. In fact, he restrains himself on account of men, that is his patience and mercy.

The perspective from which God sees things is significantly different from the view of men. Isaiah 55:8 reads “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord.” In truth, if God were to fulfil every promise made to you as you wanted them, you wouldn’t survive. Those fulfilled promises would either make you a danger first to yourself, and then a danger to others.

God therefore restrains himself for our sake. He comes through when the vessel is fit and prepared for use with the requisite capacity. Only then is new wine preserved in new wineskins. Don’t be hasty to enter seasons or walk through certain doors if God has not given the go ahead. It could be His mercy keeping them shut.

If the flood gates open and your are not established, even abundance can sweep you away.

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