Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
[2] The impatience of the saints in Abraham and Sarah.
In the instance with Abraham and Sarah, God had promised them a son, but He did not specify a time frame so that their expectation could converge with reality. They were to wait on God, and in the fulness of time, the promise would be materialized.
And like the Hebrews at Mt. Sinai, they begin to wait and they wait and they wait and they wait. One year passes, two years and then three, and still no sign of a son. Four years elapse, five years, six years, and still nothing is happening. Sometimes we may think that God has forgotten His promise because it may seem to us that after He has given His word He should follow through right away. And with this finite frame of mind, we cannot see or understand what the delay is about.
The fact of the matter is that there really wasn’t any delay. God wasn’t deliberately pushing their faith to the limits to prove any point, because he does not need to. In God’s planning, everything is done and is executed with surgical precision, but we may not be able to discern all the pieces of the jig saw puzzle up front.
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!