So when was the last time you gave up?

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

How many times do we think God is slow at delivering what we need? Or better said, delivering what we want? I would say quite often.

But if we are honest with ourselves, we know the truth. And the truth as shown in today's verse is that God is much more patient with us than we are with him.

We ask him for things we want, yet when we hear his prompting, we often don't listen. Then we wonder why he doesn't deliver what we want, when we want it.

Keep in mind that he is just no matter what we do. But we are often the ones who keep ourselves from the things we want because we try to get them in our own strength and through our own ways. We try it without Him, the one who can do all things and deliver everything we need according to his riches in glory.

The bottom line: God will let us try it our on way. He patiently awaits for us to finaly give up and let him be the one to deliver. But as long as we want to do it on our own, he is faithful and will let us wallow in the mud if that's what we want. Eventualy, we realize the futility of not letting him do the work and then he is quick to respond to our need and do his wonderful work in us.

So when was the last time you gave up?