Patience for God’s Timing
Article about: Bible, patience, Proverbs, Solomon, waiting
We live in a self centered, here and now society. To often we want things to happen NOW; at this moment. Waiting and saving has become a thing of the past. Fast food and developing film in seconds have become too slow. We want to have everything we want when we want it, how we want and as much we want. To often people are consumed with their own worldly desires and think their wants and needs come above all others, and are important than all other. We tend to get upset if things do go exactly the way we want them to and we are never happy with the things we have and want bigger and better things. If a new cell phone comes people are lined up to get it instead of keeping a perfectly good one simply because they new one is smaller and better. It seems like nothing is good enough for some people. We have a hard time accepting the things we have and want more.
We live in a world that’s all about “me.” We are concerned with what I want, how I feel, what I have done. We don’t tend to look outside of our own little worlds to see what life is really like. We don’t become concerned for other people within the world. People too often ask what can something do for me, even new Christians and the un-churched ask “what can God do for me,” but the question should be “what can I do for God.” God doesn’t live for the here and now. Everything that comes to pass has been planned according to God’s design. God knows what will happen and when it will happen. To know what we can do for God we must seek His will and plan for our lives. Waiting for God’s time takes patience and trust in God. We need to strive for God’s will to be done in our lives, yet be patient for it to come. We may live in a here and now world, but we don’t serve a here and now God.
The Old Testament book of Habakkuk tells us “But these things I plan won’t happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed. Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked; but the righteous will live by their faith.” Habukkuk was considered one of the prophets of Old Testament. The book is a short book, but holds a lot of powerful and meaningful verses. We can learn a lot from this book. We need to pay attention to what it says about God’s plans. God has a plan for everyone, He knows what will happen and when, but it has to be the right time. Certain things that we want to happen can only happen when the time is right and only God knows when that will be. God wants us to be patient and wait for his plans to be revealed. Too often we kept questioning Him about when or why something has happened. If things happened when we wanted them too, how can we learn to appreciate it and trust Him in troubled times? When things are revealed it’s according to God’s vision not our own. If you try to make things happen on your own, they won’t happen the right way and will go all wrong. Yet when we walk by faith and trust God in His plans things will come to pass the way God wants them to and they work out.
Even though today’s world is all about the here and now, God is about patience and waiting for the right time for thigs to happen. As Christians we shouldn’t fous on us and the “I wants” in life. The things we want and need doesn’t alway come when we want them too. We need to focus on God’s will for our lives and learn to say okay in your time. We need to strive for His will and waiting for what he wants to come to pass when he wants it to. We cannot try to make the things we want to happen;if we do we’d undoubtedly fail. When we rely on God things will happen according to His divine plan. When we trust in God, we need to have patience for His plans to happen. We’ve heard the saying “if it’s meant to be, it will be.” If God wants something to happen it will happen, we just need to be patient and trust in God for those things to happen in our lives. God’s vision for our lives imperfect and un-flawed; why should we in a sense, interfer with that perfect plan? We need to trust that God directs our lives according to His will.
Being patient for God’s plan to be revealed is a slow wait and will take time to happen. The time will come when all of God’s plans will come true. How can we learn to trust God in all things if we get everything when we want it and how we want it? How can we trust God if we don’t walk in faith about His will and waiting for things to happen. Why should we try to make His will happen if we claim to walk in faith? The proud trust in their own devises and try to make God’s will happen when they want it to and try to make God answer them when they don’t understand something. Proverbs 3:6 tells us “seek His will in all you do and He will direct your paths.” Solomon knew we need to place all trust God with everything we do. Putting our trust in God leads to his guidance in our lives. But simply because we trust in God for all aspects does not mean everything we want will happen. It will happen only if God wants it to happen and if it is according to His will. When we seek His will our will will become the direction that God wants us to go.
When God asked Solomon what he wanted, his answer was a simple one: he wanted God’s guidance and wisdom so he would be able to govern God’s people. Out of everything in the world all Solomon wanted was for God’s guidance therefore God’s will to be done. He put trust and reliance in God. He patiently waited for things to occur in God’s timing alone. We need to be like Solomon in that we need to put all of our trust and reliance in God when waiting for our desires. We need to try to match our desires with God’s desires for us. Things will happen, but in God’s time. It will come slowly and steadily, but it approaches when all things will be revealed and we will know what His plan was for each and every one of our lives.
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