GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN: The only thing God has forgotten is your repented sin and not His promise.

Voice of Eden (episode 191)

Mon. 14th Sept. 2020

GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN! 

I really do not know who also needs to hear this, I woke up this morning with those words strong in my heart. You may have thought about everything happening to you or someone close or everything happening in the world today, and probably think or believe that God may have forgotten His promises to you. All I want to do this morning (which I believe is by the leading of His Holy Spirit) is to remind you that God still remembers.

From the time God first called Abraham (i.e. Abram) in Haran, to the time when his “son of promise” Isaac was born, nearly three decades went by.

Abram left Haran for the “Promised Land” when he was 75 years old, full of faith and the zeal of a new recruit into God’s kingdom.

Only at the seasoned age of 100 did God decide it was time to make good on His original promise to Abraham and give him a son through his wife Sarah, which by that time, Abraham had all but given up on.

Because we are able to read through the entire duration of these 25 years of waiting in nine chapters of Genesis (Gen 12-25), or, in roughly thirty minutes to an hour of concentrated reading,  it is too easy for us to underestimate the personal struggles Abraham must have inevitably gone through during this long period of waiting.

A lot of life was happening in those 9 chapters, a lot of questioning, and a lot of doubting.

How many times was Abraham tempted to think: _“Did I not hear God?  Did I take a wrong turn?”  “Did I believe in vain?”  “Where is this dynasty I was promised!?”  “I’m not getting any younger over here!”_ 

THE LESSON :

 *There is a pattern to the life of faith that often follows a sequence of Promise –> Excitement –> Waiting –> Doubting –> Testing –> Refining –> Reinforcement –> and then, eventual Fulfillment .* 

The challenge we have with this however is that everything in our culture works against us becoming a people well-equipped to wait on God’s perfect timing. In fact, we often imagine God has a time problem, but we forget to understand that He does not work with time as to having a deadline to keep.

Instant gratification and impatience have become hallmarks of our society.

We are promised _“instant weight loss,” “instant success,”_ and _“3 Easy Steps…”_ to achieve just about anything. Nothing may be wrong with this, the only problem is trying to apply it to every aspect of life. Not everything will happen at the time you want them to happen.

It seems as though everything is right at our fingertips, right how we want it, and right when we want it.

Waiting, enduring, and learning patience, exercises of the will and character that have been integral to Biblical faith for thousands of years, are not exactly hot topics in an age where we can scroll through our boredom at the rate of 13 Instagram pictures a second. 

 *Whatever God has promised you, He will bring it to pass. All you need to do is remain in faith while you wait on Him.*

Shalom

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