The Lord Waits

Occasionally, I want to take the opportunity this blog affords me to share some inspirational and devotional thoughts that apply to ministry.

“Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you” (Isaiah30:18a)

A.W. Pink comments on this verse in his book Elijah:  “So often (God) allows things to get worse before there is any improvement.  He “waits to be gracious.”  Why?  To bring us to the end of ourselves and of our resources, till all seems lost and we are in despair: that we may more clearly discern His delivering hand.”

I was just wondering how often God “waits to be gracious” to us because we are so busy exhausting our own resources, instead of looking for His deliverance?