FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid route not to wait and become wasted.

Luke 15:11-32

As a child of the Most High God, lack is not meant to be your portion. To be in lack where provision is available is a direct result of the inability to wait for God’s hand to move. The Apostle Paul testified to the provision of God when he stated, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19). Why not wait? In the parable of the lost son, it was clearly demonstrated that the prodigal son entered into a state of want because he could not wait for his appointed time. The prodigal son interrupted God’s timing for his life by turning the clock forward. A Clock is not registered in heaven; God operates not by man’s clock but by His appointed time. The parable mentioned that the prodigal son was the younger of two sons who could not wait for the portion of goods that falls to Him. Why the rush where there is so much to receive in the place of waiting? Have you entered into self-designed rush lately? The inability not to wait is a direct route to become wasted. The prodigal son got his portion of goods (his inheritance) from his father and journeyed to a far country where he wasted his inheritance. Jesus’ parable is not a play write-up; it is in place for our learning and correction. The word of God is to serve as instruction and to guide in every walk of life for those that receive it.
Evidently in life, any type of abundance set for man and received at a wrong time will lavishly be exhausted and could not be appreciated as compared to the ones received while going through the pain of waiting. The prodigal son did not wait. As a result, he was bound to end up wasted. The prodigal son ended up where he was not called to be because his timing in the journey of life was interrupted by his inability to wait for God’s time. Jesus went further stating in the parable, “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want.” ((Luke 15: 13-14)
At every time one walks out of God’s timing, one ends up in wrong timing. Wait on God and you will never step into mistakes. It is absolutely true that none ever complained of falling or stepping into grievous mistake while waiting on God. At what point should we stop waiting on the Lord? At no point and there is no point to ever stop waiting on Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of waiting on for God’s time.