"Yet The LORD longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For The LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!" Isaiah 30:18 (NIV)
These are the words of the Prophet Isaiah, written under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God, to the impatient people of God to remind them that The Lord God wants to be gracious and compassionate to them. However, The Lord is a God of justice, and their disobedience must be punished. Their impatience will not cause God to bless them any sooner.
At times, the people of God do things without first consulting with Him. At other times, we just disobey Him. Such actions warrant and receive punishment. (Isaiah 30:12-14) The same is true now as it was then. Blessed are those who take things to The Lord in prayer and then wait for His reply or take action. He knows when one of His children has been wronged, and He will take care of the evil doer. (Proverbs 20:22) Sometimes He will even let the believer see the evil doer get punished. (Psalms 37:34) But when we are the ones that have done wrong, He waits patiently for us to learn the error of our ways and ask to be forgiven. We hinder our own blessings. The Lord wants to bless us, we just need to wait patiently for Him to do it in His own time frame. While we are waiting on Him to bless us, it would not hurt to praise Him as if it was already done.
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