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One of the things I struggle with the most is accepting that our timing, is not God's timing. To put it in perspective, God's like the giant ocean while I'm just a grain of sand. I want to be pulled into the tide, but the tide only comes ever so often. It's hard to accept sometimes that a few years wait, which is long for us, is only a blink of an eye for God. We get impatient far too easily. Sometimes, we think it's futile and we don't learn anything, but in everything there is a lesson from God.
"Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." [Deuteronomy 8:2-3]
God shows us a lesson in everything. For many of these individuals, forty years is half of their life! They must have been complaining and losing hope every year, but God tells us it was to test where our heart is. For me, I know waiting forty years is incredibly long! And I'm not even twenty yet! And God also wants us to realize that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Yes, we may quench our physical hunger when we eat, but what about our spiritual one?
"Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you." [Deuteronomy 8:5]
Things in life may be tough, but remember that God loves us so much, he has to discipline us to. What kind of Father would he be if he did not show us right from wrong? Righteousness from unrighteousness? The only reason why we suffer through life is because he loves us, and he wants us to walk on that narrow path. It never will be easy, but it will be worth it.
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To love God is to obey God.
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