Hurry Up, God!
Phillips Brooks was known throughout the English-speaking world in the 19th century as "a prince of preachers." We know him as the man who wrote the familiar Christmas carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
One day Brooks was pacing the floor like a caged lion. One of his friends asked him, "What is the trouble?" "The trouble," replied Brooks, "is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't."
We can certainly identify with that, can't we? And we agree with Henri Nouwen, who wrote, "God is never in a hurry." Sometimes though, if we are honest, we want to shout, "Hurry up, God!"
Oswald Chambers gave us this word of encouragement: "Watch God's way in your life, and you will find that He is developing you as He does the trees and flowers, a deep silent working of the God of Creation."
So stop pacing. He is working, and He knows exactly what He is doing.
--Rocky Henriques, www.timothyreport.com
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