When A Trumpet Sounds,
You Will
Hear It
Woe to the
land of whirring wings along the rivers of
in papyrus boats over the water.
Go, swift
messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared
far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is
divided by rivers.
All you people of the world, you who live
on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and
when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it. This
is what the Lord says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on
from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest.” For, before the
harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the
shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Isaiah
18:1-5
Jesus will
always wait for the right time to give His message. Everything that seems like
a delay just means everything has to line up perfectly in God’s time. Every
delay flows from the depths of His wisdom and love.
Delay, if we
accept it, can produce quieter virtues like humility, patience, endurance, and
persistence – qualities that are often the last to be learned.
Are you in
distress? Does the Lord seem distant and detached? He is not indifferent to
your plight, nor is He unmoved by your pleas. He is waiting while His purposes
are achieved. Then, at the right moment, He will intercede. God is never in a
hurry, but He is always on time.
God
is worth waiting for; His time is always the best.
Our Daily Bread –