Delayed Blessings

This is from my devotional Streams In the Dessert I am a day

ahead since we are going out of town this weekend for the

fourth of July and I only want to take my bible. I wanted to

share this really quick before we leave.

July 4

For the vision is yet for an appointed time.... though it tarry, wait

for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry (Hab. 2:3)

In the charming little booklet Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman

was led into the Lord's treasure houses, and among many other

wonders there revealed to him was the "Delayed Blessing Office,"

where God kept certain things, prayed for, until the wise time

came to send them.

It takes a long time for some pensioners to learn that delays

are not denials. Ah, there are secrets of love and wisdom in the

"Delayed Blessings Department," which are little dreamt of!

Men would pluck their mercies green when the Lord would

have them ripe. "Therefore will the Lord WAIT, that He may

be gracious unto you"(Isa. 30:18). He is watching in the hard

places and will not allow one trial too many; He will let the dross

be consumed, and then He will come gloriously to your help

Do not grieve Him by doubting His love. Nay, lift up your

head, and begin to praise Him even now for the deliverance

which is on the way to you, and you will be abundantly rewarded

for the delay which has tried your faith.

O Thou of little faith,

God hath not failed thee yet!

When all looks dark and gloomy,

Thou dost so soon forget~

Forget that He has led thee,

And gently cleared thy way;

On clouds has poured His sunshine,

And turned thy night to day.

And if He's helped thee hitherto,

He will not fail thee now;

How it must wound His loving heart

To see thy anxious brow!

Oh! doubt not any longer,

To Him commit thy way,

Whom in the past thou trusted,

And is "just the same today."