waiting on the LORD



What seems like a delay in life could just be a divine appointment waiting to happen. Wait on it...




Just because you can't see what God is doing, it doesn't mean that He isn't working. Habakkuk 2:3 says, "The vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end-it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay." What seems like a delay in life could just be a divine appointment waiting to happen. We get so caught up in what we don't have or what isn't happening that we obsess over it. God is still working things for your good and for His glory. That job, wait on it. That relationship, wait on it. Whatever it is, wait on it.

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In Habakkuk chapter two, Habakkuk is concerned about everything that is happening around him. There is evil running wild, and he wants justice. He wants answers. God gives Habakkuk a vision detailing His answer to Habkkuk's concerns and complaints, but before God gives Habakkuk the vision He says this, "Write this vision, make it plain on tablets." How certain can you be with God? Get your tablets out, you can etch in stone. You can take it to the bank. Regardless of what is going on in your life, the darker the room, the brighter the Light shines. Even if it's just a flicker. If you can't see what God is doing, it doesn't mean He isn't moving. What seems like a delayed answer in your life is just a divine appointment waiting to happen, wait on it. God's glory will not be denied. He is doing more than you see or feel.

The lord is saying, "Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another." - Isaiah 48:10-11
  Still, it takes more. It takes vision. It takes sight. God says, "for my own sake," twice. We fight the battle of life from victory, not for victory, because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, and the glory is His. We can rest assured that in the midst of the furnace of affliction, when we are faced with less than ideal circumstances, God is still working things together for our good and for His glory. Let's look at three factors that not only remind us of why we fight, but that also give us the passion to fight, to keep going when we don't feel like it.






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