Saturday Reading: 2 Peter 3:8-9
Key Verse: 2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Devotion:
How many times have you asked for patience and wondered why you have not got it yet? When we ask The Lord to provide us with things we should not expect things to happen as soon as we ask but to be given us when The Lord knows is the best time. Let that not be a discouragement but rather an encouragement to know that God will provide His best for us and not to just answer things as we ask. He does not want us to be like spoiled brats because that is what we will turn into if we get everything as soon as we ask for it – that is our way of thinking.
God is certainly not limited by time in the way that we are and so is not concerned that it may take ten years to answer a prayer because He knows the right time to answer it is in ten years time and not right now. He will even answer prayers before we ask – we will go to Him in prayer and then find out that He has actually answered it already but we did not know that. His timing is perfect and He gives us His best. He has already given us His Only Son; do you think He will withhold anything if He has done that already?
The last thing God wants is for us to get a superiority complex over our fellow beings. As soon as we think we are better than anyone else we are doing exactly what Satan did in the beginning. He wants us to be content with ourselves and our lives safe in the knowledge that He is still looking after us and that He wants us to have His best! He wants us to realise that we are the ones that get things wrong, we are the ones that make mistakes and that we are the ones that need to come to Christ for forgiveness. Once we have done that we can never be taken away from Him and our prayers will always be answered!
Points to Ponder:
How patient do you think you are?
Are you testing God’s patience?
