Day 23 – Whether your wait on the Lord feels like a minute or forever, the Lord’s Will is always worth the Wait.
Today’s Reading: 29:1 – 33:23
Exodus 32:7-8 “And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
As the days were passing and Moses was still meeting with the Lord, the Israelites began to get restless and complained to Aaron. They couldn’t handle the wait any longer and wanted Aaron to make them another god. So Aaron, in a cowardly fashion, agreed to the demand of the people and took their gold to throw into the fire. Once the gold was all melted Aaron pulled out a mass that looked like a calf, and the Israelites began to worship it.
Many time, and I mean “many” times, from birth to death, we humans become impatient in the wait. We hate to wait on hold, in lines, for water to boil, for marriage, for babies, for graduation, for the test results, and for God’s Will. And no matter how long the wait is we feel like it’s forever. Like the Israelites, instead of waiting, we most often force relationships, skip ahead, lie, make bad decisions, change our course, seek peace in the wrong place with the wrong stuff in the wrong hands. We may make drugs, sex, money, work, men, or something else our god. Then when we reap the consequences of not waiting we gain a huge heap of guilt and frustrations.
God needs us to wait on Him so we can experience His better plan. During the wait He is preparing us for the next step and His future blessings.
When God found the Israelites worshiping the calf He wanted to kill them all, but Moses stopped Him, yet some were still killed that day.
We must determine to wait on God no matter how long it feels. And during the wait we can take time to Pray and Seek Him, for He will fill our wait with Peace beyond our Belief.
Dear Heavenly Father, Waiting is Hard, but this kind of Hard is the Hard Good because Good will come from the Hard. Please help me to wait on you in every situation and every circumstance that I come across. Please help me to wait on you and your plan. In Jesus Name, Amen.
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