When we sit to focus and connect with God we use meditation, prayer or reading His word.   During those times, we may be seeking answers for our life.  Nothing compares to the moment when we find the answers that we seek.  Those answers come through a scripture that we’ve read or a still small voice that assures us of direction and things that are to come.  It is easy to become discouraged in the current climate and forget those moments ever occurred.  There are so many unknowns, so much division, distrust and dishonesty that we are not certain where to focus our attention.  What also remains in this moment, are many unfulfilled promises that we were given in those moments of silence and reflection.

I am assured of one thing “God is not a man that He should lie;…hath he said and shall not do it? or hath he spoken and shall not make it good?” Numbers 23:19.  This is not a moment in time to discard the promises of God but rather a time to help us focus on our preparedness and trust that those things WILL come to pass.  I often wonder how many people were one mile from their goal and turned back.  One introduction from making the impact they were intended to make on the lives of others.  Regardless to how we feel about the art that Tyler Perry produces, knowing his story makes me believe he should be better known for his faith than his movies.

With all of his reserves diminished; as he did hair and makeup for one of his stage plays.  Tyler had a conversation with God that he had come as far as he could and that night, he would bid farewell to his career and all he’d tried to achieve in theater.  It was that evening that he says he peered out and saw the line forming around the building.  That evening became the beginning of the meteoric rise that saw him launch the first African American owned movie studio.  It was not his skills as an actor that brought him to this place but I feel his faith that he was on the path God had ordained and ignoring the time it took, His promises were sure.  Seeing he was at the end of his strength, God opened the door of promise.

The bible is filled with journeys that stretched beyond human capability.  I wonder if the convenience of our modern age; our microwave, drive through society, isn’t robbing us of our perseverance and our faith? Do we feel the wait involved is denial instead of delay? I wonder about all the notifications we are programmed to listen for.  If we ourselves are not part of a universal conditioned response experiment that is drawing us further and further away from the instructions that keep us on the path of righteousness.  Which is synonymous for the true course for our lives.  I intend to wait for every promise God has assured me of.  I further intend to let nothing about this season persuade me that the God of Alpha and Omega did not plan around the year in which we live.  What if God were preparing our lives for every thing He promised and all that was left was to make it through 2020?