God's Delays

This Sunday morning in our Contemporary Service (8:30am) I'll be speaking about "God's Delays". Often, we mistakenly think that God's Delays are God's Denials, but that isn't necessarily the case. Abram thought God was not going to give him a son, and that he would have to make Eliezer his heir (Genesis 15). But God emphatically reminded Abram of the promise to make him into a great nation.

I recently heard someone who was impatiently waiting in a line of traffic in Minneapolis. They didn't know why the traffic was so bad, and they were really tired of it. The reason, they later found out, was because the bridge collapse that killed 7 and injured over 60. That person said they will never complain about traffic again.

Unfortunately, we can't always see that there's a good reason for God's Delays. But we can always trust that there is.

Isaiah 55:8-9, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are My ways your ways." declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts..."