I know this is a picture of the order menu at In-n-Out burgers. You are probably getting hungry right now and I'm sorry for that. This last winter on vacation Amy and I experienced a In-n-Out burger for the first time. Fifty five years or my whole life to experience the animal, or what ever it was called. It was great and we enjoyed ourselves. But what do you do when you have to wait for something; maybe your whole to see it happen? Especially when you've been asking God for it? When God makes you wait for something longer than you want to, He's teaching you patience. Your emotions are like a wild horse - they need to be reined in. 'Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that He has promised.' (Hebrews 10:36 NLT) Pastor I have to wait on God sometimes? Yes, because your impatience will just make you and everybody around you miserable, but it won't rush God. He works according to His own plan and timetable: '...In due season we shall reap...' (Galatians 6:9 KJV) 'Due season' is God's season, not yours. You're in a hurry, He isn't. He takes time to do things right. You may not know what He's doing, but He does. And that will have to be good enough for you. God's timing seems to be His own business. He's never late, but He usually isn't early either. He takes every opportunity to develop in you the fruit of patience. But other fruits are being developed in you as well. There are several things that must arrive at the finish line at the same time in order for you to win the race. Developed potential, without character, doesn't glorify God. If you were to become a huge success and yet be arrogant and harsh with people, that wouldn't be pleasing to the Lord. So when you get ahead of yourself in one area, He gently but firmly blocks your progress in that area until the others catch up. You don't appreciate any of this while it's happening, it's later on you realize what a mess you'd have made if things had been done on your timetable instead of God's. You are loved...
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