Will Jehovah Wait?

Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.

"But God didn't answer my prayer!" Larry says. "I prayed for a new bicycle and He didn't give it to me!"

Do we sometimes find that we have the understanding of little children? I have told people, as I'm sure many have, that God always answers our prayers. As parents we know we always answer our children's requests, but not always in the ways they want. It seems in this day and age that to tell children something they don't want to hear, as in 'no', or 'wait awhile', or even worse 'you need to work for that', is not popular. Parents want to be their child's 'friend', or better yet the 'year around Santa Claus' not their guardian and mentor. Certainly not someone who guides them to do the right thing--to live God-fearing lives.

Isaiah 30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. 20) And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;

How many times are we willing to wait on Jehovah? And we certainly don't want the bread of adversity, nor the water of affliction. Yet both of these items can be 'teachers', for those who are willing to look, for those who are meek enough to accept the 'chastening of the Lord'.

Most of us have heard of the 'Great Depression' which began with the 'stock market' plunge, however there have been a number of 'Depressions' that have affected this country...the difference is in how they were handled. In previous financial depressions people turning back to God, were looking for His deliverance. In the '30's people turned to the government for their solution, and it has been a long slide downhill ever since.

Would the 'Founding Fathers' looking at our country today recognize any of it? I doubt it. They began a 'Republic' not a Democracy. They looked at a democratic society with disdain, realizing that it was more of a 'mob' rule, where as Thomas Jefferson says "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

Why is it we have ceased to turn to God for our solutions?

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Acts 16:25-26 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them; 26) and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.

2Corinthians 3:5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God

Revelation 3:11 I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

Hallelujah! What a Saviour!