Slow Down

Yes it's a great Third Day song but I am not here to talk about Third Day or their song Slow Down.

This will be short and sweet. So many times we go in prayer asking God to give us patience, give us peace, give us understanding, give us wisdom. Ask and you shall receive...right? Yes, God keeps His promises; Luke 11:9 Ask and it shall be given. I talk to so many people and even find myself saying the same thing, I asked and God didn't give it to me.

God gives in His timing and in His way. Look at it this way, there's a grape vine and there's a dried grape. You have 2 choices, fill the grape with juice (someway some how I am no farmer, just go with me here) and the grape will be fine for a couple days. Or you can choose to put a little more effort into it and nurture the vine and bring it back to health so to speak and the grape will be healthy for much much longer.

I feel God works in the same way. He doesn't want to just fill us up and send us on our way so that in a week or two we run back to Him asking for the same thing again, weather it be patience, wisdom, understanding, rest or whatever. I feel God wants to nurture us and embed in us His word and teachings so that we can go out a month from now and testify what He has done for us and hopefully be a blessing to others. Instead of just giving us whatever we ask for He puts us in circumstances in which we have to put a little effort forward and learn to apply it and therefore gain that which we have asked for.

Hope this makes sense and it blesses your life, let me know what you think. :)