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NOVEMBER 20 ASSURANCE FOR THE APPOINTED TIME
“Though God seldom comes at our day, because we seldom reckon right, yet He never fails His own day.”Though the promise tarries until the appointed time, yet it will not tarry beyond it! “When the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt” (Acts 7:17).
Herbs and flowers sleep underground all winter in their roots but come up out of their beds, where they have lain unseen for so long, when spring approaches. And the promise will do this in its season.Every promise is dated, but with a mysterious character; and because we cannot understand God’s chronology, we think He must have forgotten us. It is as if a man should set his watch by his own hungry stomach rather than by the sun, and then say it is noon and complain because his lunch is not quite ready.
We covet comfort and expect the promise to keep time with our impatient desires. But the sun will not move any faster if we set our watch forward, nor the promise come sooner if we antedate it.It is most true, as someone has said, that “though God seldom comes at our day, because we seldom reckon right, yet He never fails His own day.” The apostle exhorts the Thessalonian church not to “be soon shaken in mind, or be troubled… as that the day of Christ is at hand” (2 Thessalonians 2:2).
But why did these saints need such an exhortation when they were looking for their greatest joy to come with that day? It was not the coming of that day which was so alarming, but the time in which some seducers would have persuaded them to expect it—before many prophecies had been fulfilled. “For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition” (v. 3).
The promise waits only until those intermediate truths—which span a much shorter period—are fulfilled, and then nothing can possibly hold back the promise after that
Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
“Though God seldom comes at our day, because we seldom reckon right, yet He never fails His own day.”Though the promise tarries until the appointed time, yet it will not tarry beyond it! “When the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt” (Acts 7:17).
Herbs and flowers sleep underground all winter in their roots but come up out of their beds, where they have lain unseen for so long, when spring approaches. And the promise will do this in its season.Every promise is dated, but with a mysterious character; and because we cannot understand God’s chronology, we think He must have forgotten us. It is as if a man should set his watch by his own hungry stomach rather than by the sun, and then say it is noon and complain because his lunch is not quite ready.
We covet comfort and expect the promise to keep time with our impatient desires. But the sun will not move any faster if we set our watch forward, nor the promise come sooner if we antedate it.It is most true, as someone has said, that “though God seldom comes at our day, because we seldom reckon right, yet He never fails His own day.” The apostle exhorts the Thessalonian church not to “be soon shaken in mind, or be troubled… as that the day of Christ is at hand” (2 Thessalonians 2:2).
But why did these saints need such an exhortation when they were looking for their greatest joy to come with that day? It was not the coming of that day which was so alarming, but the time in which some seducers would have persuaded them to expect it—before many prophecies had been fulfilled. “For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition” (v. 3).
The promise waits only until those intermediate truths—which span a much shorter period—are fulfilled, and then nothing can possibly hold back the promise after that
Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
