TRIALS:
ATTITUDE TOWARD; PATIENCE: GOD’S TIMING; HUMILITY

In this call to His people for true humility, God adds the promise that He will exalt us in due time! “Due time.” I think that means a time that is proper to all of the circumstances. It will be the time that God knows is best suited to perfect us and a time that will bring honor to God and the most good to men. That is “due time.”

It may be that in God’s will He will expect us to wait a long time before He can honor us or exalt us. He may let us labor in humility and subjection for a long period because it is not yet His time—due time.

Brethren, God knows what is best for each of us in His desire to make us the kind of saints that will glorify and honor Him in all things!…

God has said He will exalt you in due time, but remember, He is referring to His time and not yours!

Some of you are actually in a fiery furnace right now. You are in a special kind of spiritual testing. The pastor may not know it and others may not know it, but you have been praying and asking the Lord: “Why don’t you get me out of this?”

In God’s plan it is not yet “due time.” When you have come through the fire, God will get you out and there will not be any smell of smoke on your garment and you will not have been harmed.

The only harm that can come will be from your insistence that God must get you out sooner than He plans.

The Lord has promised to exalt you in due time and He has always kept His promises to His people.

Job 23:8–10; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Daniel 3:27; Galatians 6:9; 1 Peter 5:6

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