It’s SO You Can Catch Up…
Habakkuk 2:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
3For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day.
I remember when I was younger, many many moons ago, I would want to hang with my older brother and his friends...I was a bit of a tomboy and I was always trying to prove that I could hang with them, from the smart mouth that I used as a defense and a mode to prove I was strong and capable; from playing football in the street and racing against his friends and mine alike. Well, at that time I was a tiny little thing, so on the days when they were merciful or not trying to teach me a lesson, like I did not really belong, they would either give me a head start or they would start with me, but run and then slow down their pace to allow me to catch up, and sometimes pass them and even take a victory…I always knew that they were slowing down for my benefit, and instead of being grateful I was mad, just like a little feisty thing trying to pave her own way, and always trying to prove herself.
Funny enough I am in that season that I have been trying to run to keep up with God. God is doing some things in me and through me that have been unmistakable His plan unfolding…But my race has always pretty much been at a crazy pace, mainly because I didn’t always do what I was supposed to and then I ran into God and go so hard, He brought me along quickly in some giftings and anointing’s. But now I see God slowing my processes down and the full manifestation of things, and I find myself again like that little girl that did not like to have someone slow down so I can win, something in me is saying God I can handle it I can keep up, just do it, just please let me win. I am finding that God is making me wait on some things. He is slowing down the manifestation in order for me to catch up. In order for me to get some items in my life straight, clear, cleaned up and in right order. But instead of me seeing that at first, I was upset, asking why is it taking so long, why can’t this all just fall into place? But God knows that if He brought me and so many more like me along we are not ready to be in that season, yet. He knows if we had to keep the pace that He may really be at we would faint or not be able to handle the process. He knows that if He brought us into a specific season too quickly we would not have developed the appreciation for what will be manifested in that season and we would think that by some chance we did something to get there and we would try to take credit for it.
God knows that for many of us He has to slow down our pace, our getting to the promise land. Many of us have not brought our flesh under subjection enough to handle what is coming next. Others have kept a specific pace for years and God wants to place us in a season of rest before we come into a season of intense work and effort. Still there are others that God needs to pour more into; He has another level of anointing that He needs to pour over us and into us, in order for us to be saturated to handle what comes next. For all of us who find ourselves in this place, right on the edge of a new season and a place of anointing or blessing God needs our heart attuned to Him, and it in a place of obedience and surrender in order for us to hear Him and follow after no other. You see for us to be sustained in this new place we must be able to hear and stay in a place that understands without God I would not have gotten here and I surely cannot stay here. So God slowing down our process whether we know it or not is to build us up and to make us better, but it is often hard for us to understand that. Just like that little girl that did not understand those guys were trying to in those moments make her apart and bless her with a win that would likely have never come any other way, by no other means. God is doing the same thing, He wants us to win, be successful and blessed, but He knows it will not happen any other way, except if He slows us down and gets us ready to handle all He is doing!
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