How Long

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It is God’s love letter to us, and His instruction book for us.  If you loved someone, and wanted the best for them, and you knew something they needed, but didn’t know.   Would you tell them?  If you loved them you would.  That’s what God did.  He loves us, so He told us.  Has God ever told you to do something, and you haven’t done it?  Forget yet…  if you haven’t done it yet, you haven’t done it.  Maybe just never got around to getting started on it.  Maybe started strong with the best intentions, but never really finished.  Do you know what it is?  Are you maybe just afraid of doing it, fear of the unknown, worried you won’t do it good enough, worried of the thing He might ask you to do next… or truth be told, you just don’t want to?  Did God tell you to do something, and you haven’t done it?  How long?  How long will you wait, before you do it?  Some people wait forever, God told them, but they will never do it.  Is that you?  Other distractions become priorities, and life happens, and they are all bound up with the urgent, and never do the important.  How long will it take before you do what God told you?  Will you do it ever?  Could it be that He is waiting on you to do something?  And He can’t take you to the next place, until you do it?  Could it be He can’t take you to the next place until you do what He told you to do in this place?  Could it be that your next season is delayed, because you have not yet implemented what He told you, so you can learn what He needs you to learn in this season?  Some people are waiting for a job, but didn’t do what God told them to do yet on this job, or before they get the job.  Some people are waiting on a car, or a house, or a spouse.  But did you do what He told you to do?  Until you do it, you may not get it.  Has God called you away from something?  That’s never the full story, or the full plan.  Whatever God calls you away from, is not His plan.  It’s what He is calling you to, that’s His plan.  What He has for you there, not here.  Will you go there?  Are you fearful? Do you trust Him?  Whatever it is, did God tell you to do something, and you haven’t done it…  It’s taking forever.  Will it?  This might not apply to everyone right now, but does it apply to you?  You might ask Him.  If this Word is not for you right now, it may be something you will be needing soon.  When He tells you to do something, praying that you will do it, at the time He tells you.  If it is a big something, that takes many steps.  Do you know the first step He has for you? He’s assigned a time for it.  Did you ask Him, will you do it?  It might be as simple as call someone, apologize, seek forgiveness, and restore the relationship.  It might be write someone, pay that outstanding bill, or finished that last class needed to get your degree.  It might be - leave Ur of the Chaldees and go to the land I will show you.  What if Abraham delayed?  What if he never got around to it.  How long will you wait?  How long?  PiVAT before dinner will get His plan for you today, PiVAT Weekly, and PiVAT Monthly will help you seek His will for you – by the end of this month.  Then the only question:  Will you do it, when He said to do it.  Praying that you will, so He can take you to the next place He has for you.  There’s always good there.  Not easy, good. 
 
Love you all,
dad