…There are times in our lives we find our selves bound in problems and situations we don’t understand and can’t seem to get out off. As far back as we can remember, it’s always been like this, we’ve prayed, fasted and nothing. It seems like God will not deliver us, ‘maybe He even can’t’, we think.
We are limited to our situations ‘tied and tired’. Nothing seems to work, and now, the sad thing is we are getting used to it. We begin to declare ‘it’s always been like this anyway, why should God change things now!’… We proclaim God has ignored us; we might just get comfortable with our discomfort. Besides people have begun to call us an ‘Ass’. The sad thing is that we have not only begun to feel like one we have suddenly begun to look like one.
What do we do when we are burdened with life’s problems?
What do we do when we seem yoked to a particular situation and we can’t do anything about?
What do we do when people stare at us in disgust and consider us irrelevant?
What do we do when we begin to feel irritated about our incompetence and ineptitude?
What do we do when the problem-solver does not solve the problem?
‘Wait?’
Yes!
Not because we want to, but because we have no choice but to.
‘Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint’ -Isaiah 40:31
No one has to teach us to wait; we wait because we don’t have a choice but to.
It is not, having to wait that is the problem, it is how to wait that bothers God.
And when we wait …with Faith, upon the Lord, God moves beyond our situation and reaches out to our need. In that very predicament we find our selves, He says ‘loose him and bring him unto me I have need of him’. And then at that point, He raises us and Glorifies His Name in us from the very situation we found our selves unto the point people celebrate our existence in God.
But then, can you envision if the donkey had boasted in itself as the multitude celebrated Hosanna?
But don’t we all do that, carry the Glory for our selves just after God has delivered us?
God expects us to return all the Glory unto Him…and yes, even when you are an ass.
3 comments:
biola
Hi rotex,
I'll have to agree with you on that. It can be sooo difficult to just wait. But for me after I fight and wail. I sometimes just stop!!And realise that Gods not going to move any faster than he wants to. His timing is c'est perfect
Hi Tintin,I definitely agree with you. Most times we forget that our lives do not belong to us but to the One who created us for His own Purpose and who at all times is writing A BIG STORY with our lives.Waitng can be difficult when we are ignorant of the fact that He himself said I KNOW THE THOUGHT I HAVE ABOUT YOU,THOUGHTS OF GOOD, NOT EVIL ,TO LEAD YOU TO AN EXPECTED END May He open our eyes to see beyond the circumstance and exchange our weaknesses for His own Strength at such TIMES.
Hi Rotimi...I noticed it's been more than 10 years you wrote last on this blog...May be , just may be it is time to share New revelations.
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