Tuesday Reading: Habakkuk 2:1-4
Key Verse: Habakkuk 2:1
1 I will stand on my watch and set myself on the tower, and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Devotion:
How impatient are you? All of us have a very different view on how impatient we are than others have on us. We may think that we are the most patient people around whilst others think we are not; or it may be the other way round... But somehow I don’t think many of us will openly admit to being impatient with God; even though we are!
We lift up our prayers and supplications to Him and expect an immediate answer; if not immediate then pretty quick anyway! That is just the way we are. We are used to asking people for things to be done and expecting an answer or action pretty much immediately. This is all because we live within time and are governed by time; it is something we must all be aware of and something we all have to live by. God created time! He is certainly not governed by it. Why then should we seek to have Him stick by time as we do? Well, that’s just the way we are...
When we feel like we are all in a storm with no way out much like the disciples must have felt being tossed about in the storm, we must remember that Christ is close at hand. He is the one that we need to have faith in because He alone is able to take care of our storms. It does not mean that He is going to take care of then there and then; He was asleep in the boat when the disciples feared that it would sink. We need to take care in what we do so that we will not be distracted away from watching out for His answer when it does come. As Habakkuk wrote, we need to get up in a tower above everything so we can look out and see His answer when it comes. Far too often we bury ourselves in the here and now and don’t wait for God to answer in His own time... He has given us the bibles so that we can gain insight, gain answers, gain guidance... all because He has already supplied them to us!
Points to Ponder:
Are you patient?
How long do you wait for God before giving up?
