“I Want it God, and I Want it Right Now…”

“There is a Time for Every Purpose Under the Sun…” Ecclesiastes 3:1

I love the Old Testament stories… In Exodus 23, the Lord speaks to Moses with the promise that “He would drive out the enemies” before the children of Israel. You would think “God would have sped up the process of getting the Israelites into the promised land.” After all, they had been slaves for hundreds of years under Egyptian bondage, but listen to what God said, “I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee…” Exodus. 23:29

Sometimes when we pray, we think we can command God to “do it right now…” It is like a child, when we promise him something, and he throws himself on the ground, pounding his hands and feet, demanding that he get it “right now.” But, the Lord knows what is best for us. He will do it “in His time,” and “with His purpose…”