Hope Deferred and A Sick Heart

Impatience leaves the heart sick.  A sick heart tries to feel better in impatient (lawless) ways.

Proverbs 13:12 NKJV — Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

All lawlessness is sin. Impatiently trying to do what only God can do is sin, not help.  Impatience does not please God. Hope does. Faith hope and love please God.

Every promise God makes is a yes. It will be fulfilled.  Patience and faith are required for me to continue abiding in love (obedience) while waiting on Gods timing.

Because God is committed to love, He is also committed to free will.  Because of this unwavering commitment to our own freedom, the Lord waits!

What an amazing God... A Father that waits on His children.  A King who has tender patience for His subjects.  A Creator who yields His hand to waiting for His creation's readiness to receive all of the blessings that come from it!  Our God is so powerful that He can afford humility. God loves humility throughout His kingdom because humility is an attribute of faith in who God is!

James 4:6 NKJV — But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

Look at Jesus' personality:

Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV — “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

It's the gentleness of the Lord that defers the circumstances in which I hope.  My heart is sick when hope is deferred, but that is only painful when my hope is in the wrong thing!

Until I learn to hope in God instead of the circumstances God has promised, my heart will continue to stumble in sickness, and my being will continue to get burdened in sin... Or lawless ways of finding satisfaction.

God WILL vindicate faith.  He will save. He will judge the enemies of the righteous. He will provide at the right time. He will. He will. He will....

Will I put my hope in who He already is and has been, or will I proudly wait until I see what He has promised come to pass before I rest in who He is? Blessed are those who believe without seeing.

I'm not waiting for God. He is waiting for me...

2 Peter 3:8-12 NKJV — But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?