For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:8
In the things we ask for in prayer, God knows the proper time so the
answers are good for us. God gives us his cheque, but he will pay at his
pleasure. The time is concealed in hidden to us, though not uncertain
to God. Abraham bound Isaac and his hand was lifted up to kill, but
deliverance came at the right moment. There are several reasons why the
Lord delays to help and hear us. (1.) That our faith and dependence on
him might be better tried. We know from experience that though the way
is sore and we must be courageous, the outcome is joyful. Though the way
is better, the victory will be great. The woman of Canaan had a good
cause, but the Lord put her off that he might display her faith to us
forever (Matt. 15:28). (2.) Sometimes it is done to humble us.
‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble’ (James 4:6).
Until we are nothing in our own eyes, he never comes with comfortable
deliverance; or until we come to that pinch in which we cry, ‘Lord, how
long?’ as Paul said of himself (Cor. 1:9). The Lord took away his hope of life
that he might be humbled and know the only place to find life, help,
and comfort in all his extremities. (3.) God puts us off longer to
quicken our appetite. We are unwise to think that he intends to put us
off forever. God does not want us to give up, but to press him so much
the more. This experience once found is very sweet, though it smarts at
the beginning. (4.) He delays and puts off our request to enhance the
value of the. What comes lightly, goes lightly. We highly prize that
which cost us dear. If the things of God did not cost us sighs and
tears, we would think them easy to be had. God therefore, to enhance
their value, keeps them off that we may know their true price.
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