Good morning,
Why do you think that God makes promises that he doesn’t keep? Paul and John and the New Testament church as a whole were all expecting Jesus to return while they were still alive. The promises that Jesus and the prophets made were full of the idea of the soon return of our Savior and Lord. Each generation of believers have had the same Bible and the same expectations as these early Christians, but Jesus is still waiting to come back as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. If that isn’t bad enough, we have all become used to claiming the promises of the Bible for ourselves and have developed some pretty good ideas of how these promises will work out in our lives, only to be disappointed again and again when what we expect to happen doesn’t happen like we think, or at all. Our sin nature and our sworn enemy, Satan, do their best to convince us that we just can’t depend on the God of the Bible to do what we think he says he will do.
The prophet Jeremiah lived through a time of a cultural collapse and the death and deporting of all those he had known during his time here on earth. When he wrote Lamentations his beloved country was empty and the culture he and his ancestors had always known was completely destroyed. Yet he tells us that the Lord is good! What Jeremiah discovered was that the God of the Universe always works with a perfect plan that works out perfectly according to his purpose and time table. He tells us that if we learn to depend on him and genuinely search for him, we will discover how good he really is. How can waiting quietly for God to act be so good for us? The writer of Proverbs long before Jeremiah said the same thing when he told us to trust in the Lord and not in our own understanding. What is so good about that? What Jeremiah had learned was that is was very good for us to wait and submit to the Lord from an early age as a discipline that would be living proof that we were genuinely trusting the God who loves the world. It is so easy to forget that we have no idea what God is up to, why he is doing what he is doing and how all this will carry over from time into eternity. When we learn to trust the Holy Spirit for the strength it takes to wait quietly for our perfect Father to act, our lives light up with joy and peace as we watch our Eternal Father carry out his eternal plan. Even so come, Lord Jesus.
Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. 26 So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the LORD. 27 And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline:
Roy Wisner
