by Dona Hake
I can remember as a little girl thinking how everything took too long. Small children almost seem to think that waiting for anything can be an eternity. Many times it is just hard for them to accept the concept of the time it takes to do something.
One day when our oldest granddaughter was about three years old, I was teaching her to make banana bread. She thought it was the neatest thing ever to walk through every part of the process. She saw me crack an egg and she wanted to crack an egg. Apprehensively I handed her the egg hoping it would be a good experience. She managed to crack it properly and did rather well. With each step she grew more and more in love with the whole process of preparing the bread batter. She kept stirring and stirring and eventually it was time to pour in the pans an pop in the oven.
I could see that the baking process was hard for my Granddaughter because she did not understand why we could not just keep it in the bowl, and just keep stirring it. She was a bit unhappy with me when I finally took the bowl from her and poured it into the pans. Eventually she began to understand as she would peek into the oven and see and smell the bread rising as it was baking. It all seemed to click for her then.
We too need to be patient with our God as He is in the process of working on our hearts and helping us grow and mature in Him. Many times there are parts of our growth process that we may tend to just be comfortable with. It is those times that the Lord is moving us out of our comfort zones that may upset us. It is important that we obediently move forward in the direction He desires to take us. If we desire to see Him work His will in us we need to cooperate with the process He chooses for us. It is equally important that we patiently wait for Him in those times that we simply do not understand. Yes there will be times that we may be tempted to throw up our hands because it seems like we are not growing, yet all the while God is at work on our hearts in ways we could ever imagine. God is good and His plans are those of precision and He well knows what He is doing.
Philippians 2:13 (ERV)
“Yes, it is God who is working in you.
He helps you want to do what pleases him,
and he gives you the power to do it.”
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