We have all been learning to wait on the LORD to unfold each day, moment by moment for us, just as He lived every moment on this earth. With the Father in Him we see no - thinking, planning, speaking, acting or claiming anything for Himself, but leaving all to the Father at every step. All His followers will do the same - As Christ was entirely dependent on the Father, you must be dependent on Christ Jesus. Ms 171, 1905.
With the painful wait, from the USA election until we see who is inaugurated on the 20th of January, we have all been reminded that the LORD “knows no haste nor delay” - time affects us humans greatly but it is nothing to Him whatsoever e.g. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8,9; For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:3
History (6000 years) is replete with examples of what His professed people will DO during a tarrying time. e.g. more recently, time-setting. It seems that we humans just have to DO something when there is apparently, to our human vision, nothing happening. In His wisdom God, knowing this, always gives His people a delay to test and prove them, and during which time they may have their character perfected. As history clearly demonstrates, most have failed this test.
The Scriptures and the SOP have much sound counsel for us regarding this serious matter, not the least being - For they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me. Isaiah 49:23
We have been thinking that during the time of trouble, while awaiting His appearance, we will also have this terrible time of waiting. Maybe, it (this time of waiting for Him) could be an even bigger test for us to endure than any persecution we may have gone through, and these little tarrying-times now have been given to us to strengthen our ability to wait, quietly and peacefully, on Him. “Here is the patience (endurance, constancy) of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Revelation 14:12
When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own.
It is the privilege of every Christian not only to look for but to hasten the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. COL 69
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Revelation 7:2,3
