When God Delays, He Is Not Inactive.

Act 7:30  And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
 
Act 7:31  When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
 
Act 7:32  Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
 
Act 7:33  Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
 
Act 7:34  I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Forty years was a long time to wait in preparation for a great
mission.Yet when God delays, He is not inactive.This is when
He prepares His instruments and matures our strength.Then
at the appointed time we will rise up and be equal to our task.
 
Even Jesus of Nazareth had thirty years of privacy, growing in
wisdom before He began His work. 

~John Henry Jowett~
 
God is never in a hurry. He spends years preparing those He plans to greatly use, and never thinks of the days of preparation
as being too long or boring. 

The most difficult ingredient of suffering is often time.

A short, sharp pain is easily endured, but when a sorrow drags on its long and weary way year after monotonous year, returning
day after day with the same dull routine of hopeless agony, the
heart loses its strength.Without the grace of God, the heart is sure to sink into dismal despair.
 
Joseph endured a long trial, and God often has to burn the lessons he learned into the depths of our being, using the fires
of prolonged pain. “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver”
(Mal. 3:3), yet He knows the specific amount of time that will be needed. 

Like a true goldsmith, God stops the fire the moment He sees His image in the glowing metal.
 
Today we may be unable to see the final outcome of the beautiful plan that God has hidden “in the shadow of his hand” (Isa.49:2).

It may be concealed for a very long time, but our faith may rest in the assurance that God is still seated on His throne.

Because of this assurance,we can calmly await the time when, in heavenly delight, we will say, “All things [have] work[ed] together for good” (Rom. 8:28 KJV).
 
As Joseph did,we should be more careful to focus on learning all the lessons in the school of sorrow than to focus anxious eyes toward the time of our deliverance.

There is a reason behind every lesson, and when we are ready, our deliverance will definitely come.Then we will know we could never have served in our place of higher service without having been taught the very things we learned during our ordeal.

God is in the process of educating us for future service and greater blessings. And if we have gained the qualities that make us ready for a throne, nothing will keep us from it once His timing is right.
 
Don’t steal tomorrow from God’s hands. Give Him time to speak to you and reveal His will. He is never late***learn to wait.
~Selected~
 
He never shows up late; He knows just what is best; Fret not yourself in vain; until He comes just REST.
 
Never run impulsively ahead of the Lord. Learn to await His timing***the second, minute, and hour hand must all point to the precise moment for action.