As human beings we often tend to behave in a similar manner to certain situations, but the Word of God addresses this issue through biblical stories of men and women just like you and I who experienced the same. These great stories are intended to be lessons to us on how to respond when faced with similar encounters. One such great story on the teaching of faith in God is Abraham and Sarah’s story. We know Abraham as a man who had great faith and it was accounted to him by God as righteousness (Gen 15:6). Abraham had a vision where he spoke with God, and he complains to God of being childless, God assures him of a child of his own to be his heir, He then brings Abraham outside, tells him to look toward heaven and count the stars if he was able to number them. God tells Abraham that his descendants will be as many as the stars. Abraham believes God’s Word (Gen 15:1-6).
Now Sarah, Abraham’s wife, had borne him no children so, she tells her husband that because God had restrained her from bearing children, he should take up her maidservant Hagar as a wife so that she bears them children. Abraham heeded to his wife’s voice (Gen 16:1-3) this was ten years later after Abraham had believed in God for a son. Hagar then conceives a son named Ishmael and this stirs up jealousy and conflict between the two women (Gen 16: 4-6). These events are illustrations of the danger of taking God’s promises into our own hands, God Had a perfect plan and timing to fulfill His promise. In God’s appointed time we see Isaac being born fulfilling the will of God. Sarah was not patient while waiting on God. Sometimes we find ourselves in situations where we tend to act impatiently because we want our needs to be attended to immediately.
God being a loving Father, His plans are always for own good. He has given us the gift of the Holy Spirit Who bears key fruits in our lives, one of them being patience, not the ability to wait but how to act while waiting. How do you act while waiting on God? Do you try to devise your own ways or do you trust in and thank God for His faithfulness as you wait on Him? This is my encouragement to you brothers and sisters, God is a faithful Father, He is not like men who change their minds suddenly, He may not act as soon as we expect but He says that He will supply all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ (Philippians 4:19) see what John says in 1 John 5:14-15‘ this the confidence that we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us and if we know for a fact that He indeed hears and listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge that we have been granted the requests which we have asked from Him, isn’t this just so satisfying? The bible is full of God’s promises to us and it addresses all issues of life according to God’s will. Search the scriptures, see the promises and claim them. But most importantly, exercise your faith by patiently waiting on God and believing that His timing is always the best.
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