Stop Looking, God Has Already Sorted It Out”

Matthew 6:33

Sorted is defined as arrange; separated; sifted chose; picked; categorized. 

God has His own sense of timing: With the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. He has perfect timing: never early, never late. God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time. When your prayers don’t seem to be answered, you may be tempted to stop trusting the Lord and start trying do things on your own. We must know God has already sorted it out, we just have to trust Him in the process. Peter warns us that people will mock us and say, ‘So what’s happened to the promise of His Coming?’ He says there is a very good reason for the delay. The reason that the Lord has not come already is to give people more time to repent. God is not being slow in keeping his promise. Rather, the delay comes from his patience: ‘He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the end because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change. Repentance is all about a change of direction in our lives. It is turning away from all the sin in our lives and turning to Jesus. By giving us time to repent God is lovingly holding the door open for our salvation. Pride comes before a fall. Everything we have comes from God. We are dependent upon him for our next breath. He is in control of the past, present and future.

Thanksgiving prompts humility. The mistake Nebuchadnezzar made, and that all of us possibly make from time to time, is to think that what he had achieved was all his own doing. The lesson that God had to teach Nebuchadnezzar, and sometimes has to teach us, is that everything you have is a gift from God.

I come by this morning to let you know to stop looking, God has already sorted it out. Lord, open our eyes so we might see what is already there. Open our hearts so we might believe what is already there. Strengthen our faith so we might trust that You are surrounding what is surrounding us. In Jesus name, Amen. And it is so!!! Be bless and I love you!!! JE