When It Hasn’t Happened Yet
Now Think On This
Steve Martin
“My soul, wait in silence for God alone, because my
hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and salvation, my stronghold; I won’t be
moved.” (Psalm 62:6-7 Complete Jewish Bible)
Disappointment and
discouragement go hand in hand. You had put your hopes on an expected desire to
be fulfilled, and it didn’t happen. Discouragement then followed, and you even
wondered if what had been promised to you would ever happen. It has been two
years, five years, even seven years since the word was delivered to you. Might it even be 40? What
is going on Lord?
Thinking back, you believe you
did all the right things along the way. You prayed, you fasted, you gave
yourself to everything you knew to do. And yet in the time you thought it would
have come by now it had not. The right person to marry, that move to another
location to start over, the beginning of a new work that had been burning in
your heart since youth.
“Surely this was you Lord, and
yet when will it come to pass? Why is it taking so long?” you cry silently in
your heart.
We all know the stories of
Moses and Joseph, who each were given a word that they would do something great
for God. For Moses, it was to lead God’s people out of the long-endured
suffering in Egypt. For Joseph, it was to rule a nation in order to save his
family, and many others. Both of these would be mighty accomplishments if they
ever happened. But years into the struggle to believe, it hadn’t. I can imagine
Moses (Moshe in Hebrew) saying to himself in the 39th year, “I am
quitting. This will never happen. How could I have been so wrong?”
And Joseph, in prison for two
years, previously spending 11 with the Egyptian Potiphar after being bought as his
slave, could have said the same. “It won’t happen. The dream was just a dream.
What was I thinking?”
How many times have we come so close
to seeing something completed, a dream come true, and then we gave up hope just
short of it? Probably more that we would know, by not allowing the Lord’s time
period to be completed. But even in those times we missed it, the Lord was
still directing our steps. He realizes our weaknesses, and accomplishes His
will in spite of those shortcomings.
Knowing that our Lord Jesus knows
all, I am encouraged that He will indeed finish what He started. The hope
within, to keep on pressing on, even when it seems nothing will change, in and
of itself is a gift from the Lord. His Holy Spirit within us is there to help
us keep believing, trusting, and seeing our dream accomplished. After all, He
is the One who gave us the dream. And when it hasn’t happened as yet, He will
give us the grace and fortitude to keep hoping and trusting until it does.
I encourage you to keep your
eyes fixed on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith.
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so
easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before
us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:1-2, NKJV)
The promise, the dream, the desire of your heart
will come to pass. The Lord Himself gave that to you, and He was not kidding
around. What He says He will do, He will do. Keep strong in your faith, and don’t
give up.
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
Founder
Love For His People, Inc.
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#246 –“When It Hasn’t Happened Yet”
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