Waiting on the Lord (Edited by ChatGPT)

 

After God took His people from Egypt, He did not lead them to the Promised Land through the land of the Philistines, as they were not ready for it. In Egypt, they had been worshiping idols and prostituting themselves with Egyptian demons. God even said that the breast of Israel in her youth was used for prostitution with idols and demons of Egypt. His wife came back to Him — actually, God rescued her — after her flower of youth was lost in prostitution. That is why taking those people directly into the Promised Land would not only have left them unfit as warriors, since they had no faith in God, but it would also have made them not the light of God, but the darkness of the devil in the Promised Land.

 

So God took them on the long detour around the Red Sea, into the land of hunger and thirst, so they would learn that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. God was taking Egypt out of their lives, so they would know who He is and so they would learn to have faith in Him. Their faith was their weapon that would conquer everything, but first God had to build that faith in the desert.

 

They were made hungry and thirsty so they could see food rain from the air and water flow from the rock. They were given bitter water so they could see God turn what is bitter into sweet. God led them to the Red Sea while Egypt pursued them, so that He could split the sea — baptizing them in water while destroying their hunters. God did not give them comfort and prosperity that would destroy them, but fear, hunger, and thirst so they would learn to lean on Him and nothing else. God was making a wife out of the prostitute of Egypt.

 

God was building them, and if they waited on Him, He was building their muscle — their faith and loyalty to Him and nothing else — so they could rise as eagles. While He built them, He sent termites to destroy their enemies from within. The enemy was dying; what was missing was faith. Yet instead of building on what was given to them, they cried for what was denied to them. They learned wrongly. What they saw was a God of fear, hunger, and thirst — whom they judged to be worse than the idols they had prostituted with in Egypt — rather than the almighty God that He is. They did not wait on God; they turned back to Egypt. As a result, the two-year detour became a life sentence.

 

There are things God gives you, and there are things He does not allow you to have. The things you need are given to you; the things that will not build you are held back until God creates the right identity in you. So do you complain about the onions, garlic, and meat of the world and the slavery of the devil — or do you build on what God is building in you? Are you waiting on God to rise as an eagle, or are you complaining against Him 24/7?

 

Ask yourself: what has God given you? Then build on that. If God has given you time, ask what requires time. If what you have is time, then do the things that take time, because you may not have that time later. If what God has given you is struggle and tests, then build faith out of them. Yes, pray for what is missing — with thanks for all that God has given you — but generate the best fruit even from the worst situation. Wait on the Lord with maturity and character, while growing in spirit and faith. If God has no plan for you, you will still be better off faithful. If God has a plan for you, then you will be a soldier ready for war.

 

Don’t focus on what you don’t have. Of course, pray with gratitude for what is missing, but make the best of what you do have. If you are planning your future, then dress for your future. Your manner, character, focus, and everything you do, think, and live should align with your objective. If your objective is village level, optimize for the village. If your objective is town level, optimize for the town. If your objective is national, optimize for the nation. If your objective is global, optimize for the globe. If your objective is heaven and earth — the kingdom of God — then optimize for the kingdom of God.

 

A village shop is fast to establish but less profitable. A national supermarket chain is fine, but it is not global. Global is wealthy, but it is not eternal. The kingdom of God, however, is slow and challenging, but its fruit is everlasting peace and glory at the right hand of God. Remember: the higher your goal, the faster and with greater endurance you will need to run. 

Jesus could have built the kingdom of the Jewish people, but He would not have saved the world. For Jesus to take the world, He had to endure the unendurable and work like a donkey in faith until the small seed grew into a great tree — sheltering even demons pretending to be God (the birds of the sky). So wait on God by building on what you have and exploiting what you have, praying with gratitude for what is missing, but aiming for heaven if you can — until God lets you fly like an eagle. Yet your today must be the mirror image of your tomorrow. Dress for tomorrow.