Be Content And Wait For God's Answer

                                            Luke 18:7
                      "And shall not God avenge his own elect,
                            which cry day and night unto him,  
                              though he bear long with them?"

        Jesus tells us that God permits suffering among his servants, long after they have begun to pray for deliverance. But we are counseled here to cry day and night unto him, and, though there be no quick reply, our prayers shall be treasured up before him, and in his own good time they will be answered. Though he bear long with whom does God bear long? With the wrong-doers, whose works and words oppress and make life heavy and grievous to the servants of God; with these who have no claim to consideration, will God bear long. No!
        And this should give us some clue to the meaning of the delay we often experience before we get an answer to many of our prayers. The prayer is heard, but God, in the exercise of mercy and forbearance, has dealings with the oppressors. It would be easy for the Almighty to grant an immediate answer, but only at the cost often of visiting some of the oppressors with immediate punishment. This has forever been his way of working with individuals as with nations.
        Was it not this way that he acted towards Egypt and her Pharaohs during the long period of the bitter Hebrew bondage? We who would be God’s servants must be content to wait God’s time, and, while waiting, patiently go on pleading, sure that in the end "God will avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him."
        Amen!!

Reading: (Luke 18:1-8)

                                    May God Bless You
                                     And Your Families

                                                  Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                  The Cross Life Ministry