Delay is Not Denial

 

We are habitual forgetful people. Have you noticed how time and time again we forget of the many blessings we have received? Think about it, if you’re somehow at this moment miserable, didn’t you at one point pray for where you are at now? There was joy and suddenly there isn’t. You’ve prayed big prayers, or if you’re like me you pray small because you think that either you’re undeserving or because HE’s done more than enough for you to keep wanting; this doesn’t negate the fact that in the waiting we stay wanting.  Let me just remind you, when I say we I mean me, but feel free to relate and remind me that I’m not alone in this.

Lately I’ve been meditating on something a sweet friend told me, “Jocelyn, delay is not denial and even though you are hidden you are not forgotten.” Her words pierced my heart with a reminder that my big or small prayers are not overlooked by the one who hears and keeps them. He may hold them unanswered, but He does not withhold no good thing. -Psalm 84:11

We forget what a shield Christ can be. When you want something so tangible it’s almost impossible for us to let go of our  grasp on it for fear of losing it or worst… being lost to it. I forget that sometimes it’s best to be in a period by which something is late or postponed, we hate the delay.

The delay is a great hinderance to our time. We feel it wasted, worthless, and useless. This is me giving you a glimpse of my relationship with God, I think in this moment as a response God would hold a mirror for me to see that this delay is doing something in me. Nothing is ever wasted. It becomes something, we may not like it in the moment, we may not even like it in the future, but we can accept it in the long run as a testament that we are not forgotten. In the delay we are seen, and we are wanted. So, weather you’re thinking something you want is withheld, remind yourself delay is not denial.