It’s Friday, and this weekend, our home will be full! Our kids are coming in from coast to coast to celebrate the youngest sibling. Mason will finally have his High School Graduation and celebration, after a two-month delay. After 25 years of continuous schooling, our time with K-12 education will be complete. We are entering a new season in our lives, and so is Mason as he moves to the next phase of his life. But, we all have found ourselves in a season of waiting and wondering if the ceremony and party would be postponed yet again.
I began thinking about all of the examples in scripture of God’s people that experienced delays and disappointments. Think of Moses; he never stepped foot in the promised land. I think of Elizabeth; she was well past childbearing years when she had John, think of how hard her waiting must have been.
The Lord does not delay His promise
Let’s look at 2 Peter 3:8-9, Peter is reminding us that the Lord’s timetable is not ours.
8 Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord, one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
When we are waiting for things that we desire, we have our own timetable, and we can’t possibly see the big picture that God sees. God desires that no one person is left behind, that all will come to a saving knowledge of Him. Can we be a part of bringing someone to Christ in our waiting? How can we act, so that our lives are Shining Bright as a messenger for the Gospel?
The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (2 Pe 3:8–9). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
I don’t have a problem with God having His own timeline….I just need to be able to some deadlines with reminders attached! 😃