Is 100 years too long?
Our world is a place where patience can seem like a weakness and is often looked down upon. People with tell you that if you want something to happen you need to go out and make it happen. The problem with making things happen is that you don’t rely on God to work out his plan. What ever you think needs to be done just go out and do. Sadly this is the thinking of a lot of churches nowadays.
In James 5:10 Paul tells us to have the patience of the prophets of the old testament. I started wondering what that would mean for us to have the “patience of te prophets”. And I realized that the prophets while where predicting things in their time ultimately they where all pointing to Jesus. (See Isiah 53:3-10, and Zachariah 12:10)
Now when you go out and do things in life do you ever wonder why you do them. Is it because its a nice thing to do? Perhaps you want to see some sort of awesome miracle? Or is it that you acknowledge God as Lord of all and want to work out his plan however you can. Would you be willing to go out and whiteness for weeks, months, or even years without seeing any results? Noah did. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that God wont show you any of the fruit of your labor. But I can promise that you wont see everything that happened because you where a part of God’s plan. Can I just say thank the Lord that when we do his work that we are not limited by just what we see.
So as you go out into the world today keep your mind open to the possibilities of what God wants you to do today, weather its just talking to someone about the hope that lives in you. Or if you see someone who needs a helping hand. Remember that God is always looking at the bigger picture. For the prophets the picture spaned for hundred of years. What about you? What are you going to do today that might still be affecting someones life in one hundred years.
Thanks for sharing and your right, our sight is limited. look at the story of Abraham, God promised him a son Sarah coouldn’t conceive and they took it on themselves, Abraham went and lay down with her maid servant Hagar and she became pregnant.
Later we read that God made a covenant with Abraham he was promised a son Isaac and he was to be the father of many nations He didn’t live to see all of his descendants but he believed and walked with God
I choose to trust in God, I will lean on Him at all times, I don’t always understand the what, where, why, and how but, I will follow and the decisions I make today don’t only affect me, they affect my children and my childrens children and all those around me.
Good Post, thanks!