God's slowness is really God's goodness in action

The Lord is not being slow in doing what he promised—the way some people understand slowness. But God is being patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be lost. He wants everyone to change their ways and stop sinning. (2 Peter 3:9)

Is anyone else grateful for God's patience? I know I am! If he held every sin against me, even those committed AFTER I said yes to him, I'd be in a totally miserable place! How about you? Just because you said 'yes' to Jesus doesn't mean you stopped dealing with sin's desires and pulls in your life. In fact, like me, you probably have given in to some of those temptations on occasion. Just like me, you need God's patience and I sure hope you are as grateful for it as I am!

On another note, when God delays his answer to us, how do we take that delay? If you are anything like me, you sometimes question if God even heard your cry for help, or request for something to be done in your life. Maybe you went ahead and did whatever it was you asked God to bless, only to find you were ahead of his plan or out of it totally. A 'change in our way' of dealing with life's challenges, our needs, and even our hopes are called for once we come to Jesus. We might not realize how much we are limiting his ability to act in our life until we stop 'taking action'.

God doesn't welcome us into his family just to leave us to our own devices. He doesn't call for us to repent of our sins to have us return to them time and time again. He isn't afraid to bring conviction if that happens, though! When he does, do we see how intense his love for us really is, or do we justify our actions because of 'his delays' or 'lack of intervention' as we wanted him to intervene? Even if we justify our misguided actions, his love won't let us justify them for very long. He will bring about another set of circumstances aimed at revealing our lack of trust in his timing, methodology, or faithfulness in our lives.

God isn't slow - he is patient! This is something we must learn as it applies to our 'sanctification' - getting our actions to line up with our new heart. It is also something we must learn about his timing and purposes. God has great plans, his timing may not always be evident to us, but we need to trust when he calls us into his family, he has prepared a place for us, as well as a purpose for us. Be grateful for his slowness - it is likely what we need in order to step fully into our place and to begin to fulfill that purpose fully! Just sayin!