waiting

Eve's curse and promise - a seed that will crush Satan ... Jesus came about 4,000 years later.
.... she had Able and then Seth in the mean time.

Noah waited 120 years before the flood.

Abraham's promise was land, seed, and a nation ... Isaac came 25 years later. The nation - 250 years, the land - around 400 years, and the faithful nation 4,000 years later.

Joseph had to wait 22 years before he saw his dreams brought to reality.

The Israelites were in Egypt for 400 years until the Lord sent Moses.

They wandered for 40 years.

Hannah had to wait many years for her prayers to have a child.

David had to wait more than 20 years until He was able to take his rightful place on the throne.

The Israelites were exiled to Babylon for 80 years before they returned to the land.

There was 400 years between Malachi and John the Baptist.

From Jesus until now more than 2,000 years.

Hebrews 11: 3-16, 32-40

3 All these people were still living by faith when they died.
They did not receive the things promised;
they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,
admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.
14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.


32 And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were put to death by stoning;[e] they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.

39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40 since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.


I confess I suck at waiting. If I had lived in one of the long periods of 400 years of waiting - I think I would have given up on the Lord. I am waiting on promises from the Lord, but I am really realizing that I may never see them here in the land of the living. And if I do see them they may take a long time to get here. I confess I am extremely discouraged by this. I have been lashing out at God calling Him stingy and generally feeling faithless. I do not want to stay in this place but I am needing God to come and fill me with faith once again. I have just today begun to confess my unbelief as sin ... so we will see what the Lord does with me.