Not Everything Can Be Instant!
In contemporary society, many people have become accustomed to accomplish quite a few things instantly. Very often, just pressing a button or clapping one’s hand, will bring the desired result right away.
People are offered instant credit, photos are developed instantly, or while one briefly waits, we drink instant coffee, and ingest many instantly-prepared foods and, through a multiplicity of television channels, we can access instant entertainment and news. Information today is literally at one’s fingertips. Examples can easily be multiplied, each illustrating the unlimited possibilities in our push-button society.
Although much of that can be beneficial for us, a problem it creates is the false expectation that other issues may also be resolved in great speed. Even though rapidity may denote progress in many situations, it would mean total disaster in others. We need to learn the difference, and employ genuine understanding as we confront a diversity of issues and options in life!
Many of the things that count most, take time. The birth of a human occurs only after the usual nine months in a mother’s womb; friendships are developed over a lengthy period, as rapport and confidence are built, and as each individual unveils his or her true self to the other; illnesses must follow a certain course, in spite of medications used, before full healing becomes a reality; a journey can only occur within the time-frame necessary for its realization; any problem cannot be instantly swept under a rug, but it requires thoughtful, and often lengthy, concentration and action for its resolution.
In the spiritual realm also, time is a key factor. There are no instant Christians; you are being shaped and reshaped, moment by moment, into what God is making of you! God also prefers to observe the consistent exercise of your faith toward Him, than instantly answering some of your prayers, by providing what you need and what He alone can so easily supply.
Growth in faith is never a sudden reality; it must follow the pathways of daily sanctification throughout the length of one’s journey on earth, and to the extent that one does what is required to ensure that becoming a reality!
We all need a lifetime to learn the lessons that each new day would teach us. Everybody must exercise wisdom and patience which every situation requires of us.
As you are especially led by God, remember that His delays are not His denials and, therefore, nobody can ever rush the Lord into a pace other than the one He has chosen to fulfill His perfect design for each of His children. Yet, God is always far more ready to grant us blessings than we ever are to ask or receive them!
If God keeps you waiting for an answer longer than you may desire, His meaning is to give you not just anything, but the best thing, at the right time! Nevertheless, God never postpones the outpouring of His blessings; they always follow His divine schedule and appointment!
