In His Timing…He will do it.
Our time is usually not God’s time. I wrote a blog a few
years ago entitled “He Will Do It!!!” Exclamation marks and all, I truly and wholeheartedly believed God for something, felt
like He told me it was His will, and prayed like nothing else for it to happen.
I even felt like He gave me this exact verse for it and told me to write the blog as an exercise of faith.
It didn’t happen.
Now, it has happened. I feel a bit in a whirl since God
fulfilled…in His timing…what I thought He should have fulfilled years ago. I
didn’t experience a lack of faith or anything like that. I just figured I hadn’t
heard Him right or added something to what He told me that wasn’t there.
We do that, ya know.
But now that I am seeing fulfilment of His promise and this verse,
it makes me think of other things I’ve prayed for and been given verses for…things
that didn’t materialize in that time. I begin to think of how God is not
constrained by our time and perhaps His yes…is really "Yes." Maybe we just haven’t
seen it yet.
I think of other verses:
“I will hold fast to the confession of my hope without
wavering for He who promised is faithful.”
“Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in
the desert.”
“Seek Him and His righteousness and all these things will be
given unto you.”
“I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans to
prosper you and not to harm you—to give you a hope and a future.”
“But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds…because
you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.”
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end
it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it
will surely come. It will not tarry.”
Some of these verses revealed their manifestation in a short
amount of time. Others took longer. Others, I am still waiting on.
But perhaps what I felt in that moment God gave me that verse—His
approval of my request and the forthcoming answer—was a "Yes" for a certain
time not yet revealed.
Lately, I have been seeing the verse again, “The one who calls you
is faithful, and He will do it.” I’ve been seeing it at coffee shops, in a co-worker’s
office, on Facebook, and in my church's Sunday School room. Literally everywhere.
If that’s not confirmation of what God told me long ago, I
don’t know what is. I think He’s let me see this verse again to let me know one
thing: He heard me. It took years for His answer to come, but He was willing then
to say yes to that thing.
So, if you have been praying and praying…and feeling like
you have God’s approval on it…but not seeing the manifestation yet…don’t lose faith.
See this as your encouragement. Wait upon the Lord. To wait
upon the Lord is a good thing. That's another Bible verse.
And perhaps, in His timing, you will see the fulfillment of
that precious promise you received to your prayer. Time means nothing to Him, although
to us, the wait can sometimes seem cruel. He has so much for you in the waiting,
though. Look for those things. Ask Him. See the others around you and all the opportunities
to reach out to others and show love to them.
Ask for what He’s trying to reveal to you, through you, and
in you. Let Him use those years to change you—to mold you a little more into
His Son.
That’s the real purpose after all—the real promise. To one
day look in the face of Jesus and reflect His image perfectly. Oh, what a joy—the day of that answered prayer.
