The
pot gradually and steadily runs out of oil even as the bank account is already
in the red. The clock ticks dutifully, drawing closer the children's school
resumption after the long vacation which you wish may never come to an end. The
more you wish the hand of the clock could be stayed, the more it seems to be
moving at a jet speed, still drawing to your attention your responsibilities as
a faithful father and a virtuous woman. But alas! God seems not to be
responding in parallel to your own speed. Wait! Be Patient, Be Still, seems to
be what you keep hearing.
Oftentimes,
God keeps us waiting, even in the face of the realities of famine, face to face
with a ravaging terror. Then, we ask, 'Is the time not yet ripe for the heaven
to release the dew? Have we not wondered enough to get to our destination
point? The Psalmist found himself in the maze of this paradigm and when tabling
his matter to God, he asked, 'Lord, how long wilt thou look on?— Psalm 35:17.
But then, when he pulled himself together, he remembered that, 'the way of man
is, really, not in himself... Jeremiah 10:23 and counseled his own soul to
'Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.' His waiting was never in vain;
for the promises of God in Christ Jesus are 'Yea and Amen.' In a process of
time, to his astonishment and amazement, he exclaimed, "I waited patiently
for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." For beyond the
expected dew, there was a great shower. The entire Jews, at a time, also
expressed such extravagant joy, 'When the Lord turned again the captivity of
Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath
done great things for them.The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we
are glad-- Psalm 126:1-3 KJV.
Yes,
such change is always greeted with great excitement, it erases all past trauma,
it dries away tears as it puts songs in the mouth and melodies in the heart,
but then, are we ready to wait? Can we pay the prize of waiting, can we bear
the ridicule, face the humiliation, the despise? Can we bear the cost of being
deserted and be ready to contend with the few friends who will, rather be
judgmental than proffering solutions as in the case of Job? Will you be ready
to tolerate your wife who will rather advertise your plight than being there
for you at such a time? The scripture affirms that, '...no chastening for the
present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth
the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby."—Heb. 12:11. KJV.
God
never keeps us waiting without hope, without His presence and without
sustaining us as He stands by His Word that He 'is faithful, and will not suffer
us to be tempted above what we will be able to bear-1 Cor.10:13 KJV The
psalmist from his own personal experience counsels, 'Wait on the Lord : be of
good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Remain
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