“Dig channels for the streams of Love,
Where they may broadly run–
And Love has overflowing streams
To fill them every one.
But if at any time thou fail
Such channels to provide,
The very fount of love itself
Will soon be parched and dried;
For thou must share,
If Thou wouldst keep
This god thing from above;
Ceasing to share, you cease to have;
Such is the Law of Love.”
A Great deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God’s delays. Much of our trouble in life comes out of our restless, sometimes reckless, haste. We cannot wait for the fruit to ripen, but insist on plucking it while it is green and when it is most unwholesome. We cannot wait for the story to be written out chapter by chapter; but, in our eagerness to know how it will end, we want to omit the links of its development, and hurry on to the close. We cannot wait till the picture is completed, but insist on taking our view of it while it is unfinished, and criticizing it as if the artist’s work on it were done. We cannot wait for the answer to our prayers, although the things we ask for may require long years in their preparation for us. We are exhorted to walk with God, but oftimes God walks very slowly, and we do not care to linger back with him. We are very eager to get forward, and cannot wait. Thus the lesson of waiting for God is always an important one.
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