W A I T !!

This little word of only four letters is such a difficult word!  We seem to much prefer the little word of only three letters -- NOW!  However, this difficult job of waiting begins at birth and continues on throughout our lives if we do not practice discipline and learn to wait on the Lord!  In the second chapter of Habakkuk, we read --
     "The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."

In the little booklet, "Expectation Corner", Adam Slowman was led into the Lord's treasure houses, and there revealed to him was the "Delayed Blessings Office", where God kept certain things that had been prayed for until the wise time came to send them.
It seems to take a long time for most of us to learn that delays are not denials.  Our Lord has secrets of love and wisdom in the "Delayed Blessings Department" which we cannot see.  We would, no doubt, be tempted to pluck our mercies while they are still green, when the Lord wants us to wait until they are ripe!
In Isaiah 30:18, we read -- "And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for Him."  We can rest assured that He is watching us in the difficult places, and will not allow one trial too many!  Praise the Lord!

     "O thou of little faith, God hath not failed thee yet!
When all looks dark and gloomy, thou dost so soon forget ---
      Forget that He has led thee, and gently cleared thy way;
On clouds has poured His sunshine, and turned thy night to day.

      And if He's helped thee hitherto, He will not fail thee now;
How it must wound His loving heart to see thy anxious brow!
      Oh! doubt not any longer; to Him commit thy way,
Whom in the past thou trusted, and is 'just the same today.'"

     "He stilled the storms, and calmed my fears --
Forgave my sins, and dried my tears --
      He is the same through endless years --
He will not fail you now!"