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Friday... Life just seems to go so fast but also, it can seem so slow.


2 Peter 3:9 (NLT), "The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent."

Friday... Life just seems to go so fast but also, it can seem so slow.

I don't know what you are going through right now and what you want from God right now but sometimes he just seems to be so slow. But Peter in his 2nd letter says that we need to not forget one thing.

2 Peter 3:8 (NLT) says, "But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day." We may think that we need this to happen, whatever this is, right now. "But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends:" 


Impatience is a part of most of our natures. It is so hard for us to wait. But verse 9 says, "The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise." But he promised, he promised. Why hasn't it happened the way I want it? "But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day." But I don't have that long to wait. "But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends:"

We bought a different house and we needed to sell our other house and of course we needed it to happen now. But it seemed that he was waiting on me.

There are so many things in our life that we need to happen now, I mean, right now and patience doesn't work for us but it is so important for us to see what Peter says here in verse 9, "The Lord isn't really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent."

And that sentence in the middle of this verse is so important for us no matter what we are going through to realize. It says, "No, he is being patient for your sake." The Message says, "He is restraining himself on account of you." And God can be trusted. He knows what he is doing. He really does.

So, let's just slow down and let him work in us. You see, we are not waiting on God, he is waiting on us. "He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent." The Message says, "He's giving everyone space and time to change."

Again, "He is restraining himself on account of you." and "He's giving everyone space and time to change." So it is a good thing for us to spend some quality introspection time with him because there may be some repentance in there for us to do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


 



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