Truth Byte #16

​Sometimes the promises of God, for which we are waiting to manifest in our lives, come to us in part. We, while disappointed, want to give God the benefit of the doubt, and we say “Well, maybe that’s all God really meant by that promise. He spoke in larger terms, but the results are miniscule.” We say these kinds of things out of our reason. The reality is that only a part has appeared, but the whole will soon arrive. Never dismiss what God has said because so far it doesn’t fit your expectation. God always, and I mean always, does what He says. Patience is not the same as endurance. To endure means to “grit your teeth and wait.” To be patient means to “humble yourself with flaming love and wait for God’s perfect timing.”
 
I say “flaming love” because we can stand in humility before the Word of God, but the flaming love of humility is to stand before the God who spoke the Word. Ardently loving Him is far more important than standing on His Word. Both are essential, but love always comes first. All the promises of God belong to us, but we can’t “have” them until we are intensely wrapped up in God. When we can let go of how we think things ought to happen—at what time the promise should arrive—when we can let go of our faith in our own feelings, when there is no sense of deserving, when we have done business with God on His Word, and let go completely, then we receive. It comes so naturally that it seems like breathing. God and His ways do not produce histrionics. There’s no drama. There’s just the Kingdom of God settling deeper into our lives with peace and joy.