Write The Vision
Are you not from of old, O LORD my
God, my Holy One? You shall not die. O LORD, you have marked them for judgment;
and you, O Rock, have established them for punishment. Your eyes are too pure
to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why
do you look on the treacherous, and are silent when the wicked swallow those
more righteous than they? You have made people like the fish of the sea, like
crawling things that have no ruler.
The enemy brings all of them up with a
hook; he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he
rejoices and exults. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to
his seine; for by them his portion is lavish, and his food is rich. Is he then
to keep on emptying his net, and destroying nations without mercy?
I will stand at my watchpost,
and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to
me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint. Then the LORD answered me
and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read
it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end,
and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.
Waiting is hard for all of us. We want
instant gratification. We constantly either ask the LORD “How long” or we seek
forgiveness when we jump out in front. Just know that we are in the safe hands
of our LORD and He will define the action, and the time. He writes the vision
for us, and gives us the materials we need to carry it out, if only we wait on
His guidance.
God stretches
our patience
to enlarge our soul.
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