This morning I was reading in Leviticus 8. I was following along with a Pricilla Shirer devotional. She was talking about how the priests were being ordained were commanded to stay inside the tent for seven more days. Some were too focused on getting the position of a priest that they did not succeed in the waiting process.
How often is that the case for us? We are so focused on something in the future that we are not carrying out the waiting process that God has called us to. Maybe you are in high school and just cannot wait until college, or in college and cannot wait to finish. Or you are single and cannot wait to be dating. Maybe you have a new job lined up in the future and cannot wait to finish your old job. Maybe it is you simply cannot stand the literal season we are in and are just waiting for fall or winter to come around. Whatever the case, you are where you are for a reason and a purpose.
A couple things Pricilla said that really stuck out to me was that waiting is essential to fruitfulness and usefulness. Take time to digest what God is teaching you. Wow. Did you read that? Take time to digest what God is teaching you.
If you think you are in a hurry to move on to the next best thing, stop and try to see what God is teaching you. That is definitely the case for me, I need to slow down and love the waiting! God is always using us, we just have to take enough time to recognize that in the busy world we live in. We are always going to want something more than what we currently have. We need to become so fully focused on the Lord that this world is not a stumbling block in our waiting.
For me, God is and has been teaching me patience, grace, and tolerance with others. It seems as if the topic of grace is always coming up, especially this summer. The summer camp theme was grace,The Church I go to had a series on grace, my devotionals always bring up grace, and when I went out of town a church I visited taught on grace. That is not a coincidence! I could easily just look past all of that, but God wanted me to recognize how often grace is being brought up. Do not look past what God is trying to teach you. God has purpose behind everything.
- emily joy
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