Not too late

Recently I was doing some spring cleaning and found some old journals from years past. I was amazed as I read the various entries. I was moved as I read some of the promises God had made to me over the years. God was saying things like “now is the time.” Things like go forth, launch out, this is your season. You are a bold witness. I began to wonder in my mind what went wrong. Why didn’t these things come true? Did I miss something or somehow misunderstand what God was saying? Almost immediately I could hear the Lord say in my heart, “Those words were true, I saw you as victorious. I saw you as equipped, prepared and ready. But I had to align your way of thinking to my way of thinking and seeing. We had to be on the same wave-length.”

In addition, I learned a very important lesson. What he called me to involved God doing a deep work inside me. It is as if God has to get me out of the way so that he could move through me fully. What I assumed was a denial of the promise was indeed a part of the process for how God made me able to walk in his promises. It is not a question of being too late. It is more about the stages of development which dictate the time when God’s promises can be fulfilled. I thought it would be encouraging to you because many of you are asking the same kind of questions I was asking. You too may be wondering about things God has promised in your life. Maybe you may be questioning the things God has said to you? I want to encourage you that God is calling you into things that are compatible with the changes he is making in you. It is when his work is complete that the promises will be fulfilled.