Hurry is not His nature.
It’s simple, really, to fall into this assumption that trust in God results in the absence of the lived experience of our emotions. While trust in God does lead us to emulate the steadiness of His peace, it also allows us to feel the gravity of our hopes and dreams. God’s creation of this invitation to trust Him, when practiced as He longs for us to practice trust, leads us to a posture of waiting that involves our whole being eagerly longing with expectancy and hope. God’s love is steady, persistent and merciful as we see in Psalm 130:7-8. A love that is described through the Hebrew word hesed (Exodus 34:6, Psalm 17:7, 103:10-11). It is steady. It is persistent. It is merciful.
Hurry is not His nature because He has no need to feel behind. Nothing is forgotten, including your dreams. He painted them on your heart long before you knew how to recognize or long for them. I pray we would practice the kind of faith the wise men embodied as they followed God’s sent star to find our Savior.
Psalm 130:5-8 NIV
5 I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.
6 I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins.
- Britt Goff