Our Heavenly Father will not delay for very long over His elect, but
He will delay.
In fact, GOD's definition of "speedily", and ours, are not always
synonymous.
The Lord incorporates delays into His overall plan for our lives,
therefore producing perseverance in us.
So crucial is endurance to our character
development that GOD is willing to delay even important answers to prayer to
facilitate our transformation.
We should not interpret divine delays as
signs of divine reluctance. Delays are tools to perfect our faith. Christ is
looking to find a tenacity in our faith that prevails in spite of delays and
setbacks. He seeks to create a perseverance within us that outlasts the test of
time, a resolve that actually grows stronger during delays.
When the Father sees
this quality of persistence in our faith, it so touches His heart that He
blesses us with the things we have believed Him for.
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