are you running the race at God's pace?

Do you ever have those days or moments when you're really struggling with unbelief - or in my case yesterday, battling the unbelief of impatience?? I opened up my monthly mail from DesiringGod ministries to find this newsletter entitled: "Willing to Stand in God's Place or Go at His Pace"

'Are you waiting for something? I mean really waiting with deep longing in your soul for something beyond your control? You might be waiting to conceive a child, recieve financial provision, see a loved one come to faith, get married, see a serious illness healed, or move in a ministry direction in which you feel called. Are you waiting for God to answer? If so, you are in a good (though hard) place.

God highly values the fruit produced in the soul that learns to wait patiently for him. So he takes pains to cultivate it in us. That's why God dealt with Abraham as he did and recorded Abraham's story for us - to encourage our anxious waiting hearts and show us what walking by faith looks like.

Learning to walk by faith and not by sight is hard. It was hard for Abraham and Sarah. It is hard for all of us. It is God's process of mercifully weaning us off of self-sufficient delusion and letting us taste the JOY of what it means to HOPE in him alone. Learning to patiently trust a promise from God develops our capacity to really hope in eternal life. We learn not to trust OUR perceptions or emotions but God's promises. And over time the unseen reality of heaven becomes more real to us. There is nothing like the experience of tasting hope when all looked hopeless to teach the soul that the death we fear is not the end.

"The opposite of impatience is a deepening, sweetening willingness to stand in the place that God has appointed or to move at the pace that God has appointed...to stand in God's place or go at his pace."'

For me, right now, it's about going at HIS pace - not mine. And learning to only hope in Him and nothing else...

"For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him" (Psalm 62:5)

To read more go to http://www.desiringgod.org/AboutUs/News/Newsletters/

posted by eurorebs at 2:24 PM