Gods Time with Personal Note

Waiting on God
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman
Monday, August 10 2009

"Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!" Isaiah 30:18

Have you ever noticed that God is not in a hurry? It took 40 years for Moses to receive his commission to lead the people out of Egypt. It took 17 years of preparation before Joseph was delivered from slavery and imprisonment. It took 20 years before Jacob was released from Laban's control. Abraham and Sarah were in their old age when they finally received the son of promise, Isaac. So why isn't God in a hurry?

God called each of these servants to accomplish a certain task in His Kingdom, yet He was in no hurry to bring their mission into fulfillment. First, He accomplished what He wanted in them. We are often more focused on outcome than the process that He is accomplishing in our lives each day. When we experience His presence daily, one day we wake up and realize that God has done something special in and through our lives.

However, the accomplishment is no longer what excites us. Instead, what excites us is knowing Him. Through those times, we become more acquainted with His love, grace, and power in our lives. When this happens, we are no longer focused on the outcome because the outcome is a result of our walk with Him. It is not the goal of our walk, but the by-product. Hence, when Joseph came to power in Egypt, he probably couldn't have cared less. He had come to a place of complete surrender so that he was not anxious about tomorrow or his circumstances.

This is the lesson for us. We must wait for God's timing and embrace wherever we are in the process. When we find contentment in that place, we begin to experience God in ways we never thought possible.

Personal Note:

I have been praying and struggling because my walk has been off and I have asked God to show me what needs to change. It has been what seams like an eternity but today I was in the library and picked up a book called God Owns My Business and turned to a page and started reading. It was a chapter about TV and the words JUMPED off the page at me. I have been guarding my gates and not watching shows that should not be watched, but I still have been watching some TV, the National Geographic, Discovery and History Channel.

What the message was: do not allow TV to steal time from your family and others, it is a thief and puts a wedge in our life. Last night for example, I went to bed with the TV on and before I knew it the clock read 12:00, what a waste of time. That is time that I should have been resting and restoring my body.