"An assured part of God's pledged blessing to us is delay and suffering."
I believe you'll all agree, that we live in a "fast food society" in every aspect of life. Give it to me now, I have to have it now, and why is it taking so long... theses are the constant demands, wants and desires that we live with today. We may not personally live this way, however like myself, there are times during the day when we get a little testy about things taking too long.
We know full well that anything worth having must be earned and often the journey is of much greater value than the end result. How many times have we started out on a quest only to change our minds due to new information received in the process?
The reason our God our Father doesn't just give us everything we need or desire, isn't because He is "holding out". Often we don't need what we ask for and in fact the object we seek could or would be a detriment to our life.
In the end, there is only one thing we should recognize as our need and that is God alone. Anything else will be the icing on the cake. If we seek God's face as all we need in this life, then we will only ask for Him. We will recognize that all we've every really wanted has been right before us.
The vacancy in our soul, our deepest longing and greatest needs are all satisfied by one thing.... acceptance that we cannot and will not ever be able to meet our own needs. In the end, delays in this life will come as certainly as the sun shines on the earth. We again must choose how we live out our life today and everyday.
Choose the best and only direction. Christ and the path to eternal salvation.
Blessings & Peace
~Robert
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