In this walk of life, maybe some things have been spoken over you that have not come to pass. Does that mean that you can just forget them and move on with your life? Of course not. God did not give you a message for your future for you to just dismiss it. He wants you to treat every day as if the promise is coming and you need to be ready for it. He wants us to be like the Faithful servant described in the Gospels, known as the parable of the door keeper. The parable states that we should be ready for the Master to return. We must stand at the door expecting the Master to come home at any moment. If we are a doorkeeper to the Master's house, and we see that the master is being slow to come, it is easy for us to slack on the job and fail to do our responsibilities. When the Master is delayed, the servant thinks in his heart that he has plenty of time to make ready for the Lord, so int the meantime, he will do as he pleases, and he proceeds to do so. But God commands us to be watchful and alert, staying ready for the Master's return, for the hour of his arrival is undetermined. The parable goes on to say that if a homeowner knew of the time and date that his house was going to be broken into, he would have been watching and ready to stop him. In the same way, this is how God wants us to be waiting on his words to be fulfilled.
Perhaps there is a reason for the delay. Let's look back at the story of the girl who was dying and the woman with the problem of blood. A man came to Jesus and asked him to come to his house and touch his daughter, "for she is sick and dying". Jesus agrees to come with him, and a crowd of people begin to follow Jesus. In the crowd, a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years, gets this revelation that as long as she can touch the hem of Jesus' robe, she will be healed. As soon as her fingers make contact, Jesus stops and questions who touched him. The disciples try to assure him that the odds of someone touching him is high, for their is a large crowd of people gathered around him. But Jesus insists that power has gone out of him because of someone's specific touch. The woman reveals that it was she who touched him, and Jesus tells her that her faith has made her well. As they go to start back towards the little girls house, a servant of the man comes up to him and says, "Do not trouble the Master any further, for you daughter has died". But Jesus continues towards the house. Upon arrival, he sees the mourners gathered around the house and he tells that the girl is not dead, but merely sleeping. He then goes into where the girl is laying and restores her back to life. Imagine if the girl's father had rebuked the woman for holding up the Lord. In his anger, he might have condemned his daughter to death, but instead he trusted in what Jesus was doing and his daughter was returned backed to him. Just because God sometimes delays what he said he would do, don't become like the servant who did as he pleased, but stay ready for when he comes, you will be able to step into everything that God has for you.
Wait for it. For when it comes, it will be better than you could have possibly imagined.
Adam Semple- A young man on a mission from God
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