Stand Firm

Psalm 33:11 "The plans of the Lord stand firm forever..the purposes of His heart through all generations." God's timing is generally not the same as our timing. His timing is precise, and He does things at the very time that He has set. We really don't know the timing of God..but we wait..trusting Him..
As I write this, I am in the "waiting room"..along with most of you. I think about Abraham, and I wonder if God would have told him that he would have to wait 30 years before holding his promised child in his arms, if his heart might have failed him. I believe that God, as an act of His gracious love, hid from Abraham the number of weary years he would be required to wait. Only as the time was approaching, with a few months left to wait, did God begin to reveal the timing to Abraham when He spoke to him.."At the appointed time next year....Sarah will have a son." The appointed time came at last, and soon the joyous laughter that filled the patriarch's home caused the now elderly couple to forget their long and tiring wait.
Beloved, take heart when God requires you to wait. Some things cannot be accomplished in a day..or even a month or a year. The One that you wait for will not disappoint you. He will never be even five minutes behind "the appointed time". And soon, your time of waiting, will turn into a time of joy.