HOLD ON TO JESUS - BY APOSTLE SAM MATJEKE
Published 2020-07-12
There is a pattern to the life of faith that often follows a sequence of promise ,excitement ,waiting ,doubting,testing ,refining ,reinforcement ,and then, eventual fulfillment. This is essential to grasp if we ever hope to serve God as mature men and women in the faith.
The challenge we have with this however is that everything in our culture works against us becoming a people well-equipped to wait on God’s perfect timing.
Instant gratification and impatience have become hallmarks of our society.
We only have to tolerate for few seconds before we decide,I cannot continue with this it is taking too long.
We live in a time where things must just happen in an instant.We want microwave baked answers.Instant porridge; instant coffee;Instant milk; instant weight loss; instant success; and “3 Easy Steps…” to achieve just about anything.
It seems as though everything is right at our fingertips, right how we want it, and right when we want it.
Waiting, enduring, and learning patience, exercises of the will and character that have been integral to Biblical faith for thousands of years, are not exactly hot topics in an age where we can scroll through our boredom to find anything we want on internet.
Nevertheless, the promises of God for our lives often have to be wrestled down from heaven through long periods of waiting until they eventually inhabit the reality of this earth and become real to us.
This is a critical lesson God has in store for everyone who is chosen by God to represent and manifest His glory on earth.
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