Wait

Ex 24:15-17
15 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, 16 and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud. –NIV

Did you notice that??? SIX DAYS Moses waited and on the seventh day God showed up. Not six minutes, not six hours…six days.

If you are like me, it can be difficult to wait and scriptures like this can make you uncomfortable. Yet time and again I am reminded that God does not feel the need nor pressure to conform to our microwave society but rather often prefers to make me slow down and use the crock pot!

Delayed gratification is not highly valued in our now society. Quick, fast, easy is our motto. Yet quick is not always most effective, fast is not always most efficient and easy is not always excellence.

I am convinced that often times the answer to our hurried pace and frantic schedule is exactly what God made Moses do…WAIT. Wait until our mind quits racing, our bodies relax and our spirits are open so that we can HEAR what God has to say.

God will answer, just remember that His answers sometimes requires us to WAIT FIRST.

Isa 40:31
31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. –NKJV


Blessings,
Darren