Waiting?

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change his mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Every now and then I remember my first day in kindergarten. School was done by four and in the good ol' days in India they just held up every kid and the parent would come and pick their child up. I waited and waited and every so often the teacher would pick me up and my mother was not there. Of course, by the time 49 kids were picked up I was a mess. My eyes were swollen with weeping, snort running done my little nose, I was hysterical and I thought I would never see my family again. Finally an hour later my mother arrived. She thought the school was going to be done at 5.30.

My mother picked me up, hugged me and all was well. It wasn't really a broken promise just a misunderstanding. But it is so common for people to forget or break their word. The plumber is suppose to turn up at 2 o'clock instead comes the next day. How about someone promising you to do something and then just ignoring you? All but common.

Why is it like a breath of fresh air when someone keeps his or her promise? The reason I think is really simple. So often, we are disappointed by people who do not keep their promises or keep their word.

We have become a people that are most skeptical of the spoken word then in any other generation, I think. Cell phones turned off, landlines unhooked, someone being stood up for dinner...all very common in today's jet set age. Vows broken, contracts not honored.

But there is one whose Word never fails. Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

God promised that He would make Abraham into a great nation even when Abraham was old and did not have a son. God fulfilled His promised through Isaac. God promised Joseph in a dream that he would be above his brothers. Years later after being sold into slavery, being imprisoned and being forgotten, Joseph was promoted to being second to Pharaoh. David was just a young shepherd when Samuel had anointed David to be King after Saul. Saul He tried many times to kill David or have him killed; David had to live as a fugitive. But God saw him through every adversity and set him King over Israel.

What is the promise that God has made to you? Stay the course, press in and believe that He will show up. He has never known to fail those who wait for Him.

I will end with this amazing scripture from John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He always was, is and will always be. The Word cannot fail because He always exists.