This blog isn’t super long so don’t worry. Erica, my parents, and I were all just
chatting about random things on the ride home from church Sunday and this
subject came up. I would suggest reading my good friend, Ben Yackells blog
because he also talks about this same sorta topic. While we were talking about
random things we began talking about doing something with what God gave you and
not growing impatient. This analogy popped into my head: you standing in front
of an elevator and you go reach out, push the button and stand there waiting
for a few seconds… you grow impatient with waiting and decide to take the
stairs. To go into more detail on what God gave me through this analogy I will
break it down.
God has
given you something whether it may be preaching at a mega church or humbly
feeding the homeless. You can do something with the open door God gave you.
Once you take action in doing something God will reward that. Just like you are
standing there in front of the elevator door, God will not bring you higher
until you take action and push the button. The next thing is having patience
and not questioning God. There are quite a few examples in the Bible where
people were doing something with the situation they were in yet they knew God
had more for them. The story of Joseph really stands out to me. For those of
you who don’t know it, it can be found in Genesis 37. It is a story of a young boy who is sold by
his brothers into slavery and ends up being put in prison. He then somehow ends up being the Pharaohs
right hand man and saving all of Egypt from a famine, including his brothers who
sold him. While Joseph was in prison he was jailed with two other men and he
witnessed and shared God with them through the interpretation of dreams. He
took action when it seemed very dim that there was any way out. Yet through
doing something with what God presented him and being patient, God exalted him
and greatly blessed him.
Most
people end up growing impatient with God and let the Devil whisper lies into
their ears. Lies such as “you can do it better your own way” or “God isn’t
coming to help you so might as well just give up.” Now is not the time to fall
into these traps. Just because the elevator doesn’t come immediately, don’t
take the stairs. The stairs might look easier and faster but once you decide to
take them and you have walked up 10 flights but still have 10 more you will
regret that decision. What looks like a better option in most cases isn’t. God
is the best option and we must learn to lean on him and put our trust in him. If
we don’t and we decide to go our own way our lives will become more difficult.
It is a
two way street. God waits on us to do something for most of our lives. Once we
have given our lives and our hearts to Him, He can finally do something in our
lives. I pray that you do not grow impatient when God immediately does not supply
your needs for you. The breakthrough will come and you will be able to give all
the glory to Him.
Lord I
pray that you instill a spirit of patient within us. That we learn to hear Your
clear and audible voice. That we can abide and put our lives into Your hands.
Lead us where You may and do with us as You
will. We are Your willing vessels ready to stay on the path You have set before
us. Do Your mighty work throughout all the land. I pray You bless the readers
of this blog and that You open up the heavens to them. I pray this all right
now in the precious name of our Lord, in Jesus’ name Amen!
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