Surrender Season Series: Pt 6 When Delays Are Gifts

Nicole Joseph-Chin

Whilst we wait, we sometimes think that maybe, we have been forgotten.

The longer we wait, our humanness can sometimes kick in, to convince us that we are perhaps not good enough or perhaps we have no use, purpose or value.

Alas, there is enough evidence of waiting as part of the surrender experience and the absolute outpouring of love that waiting can sometimes lead us to is unimagined for many.

Waiting puts us in a place of divine maturity and once we continue seeing the value of waiting, we begin making room for our gifts, for when that time arrives.

The gifts that sometimes arrive with a longer than usual wait, are really the fruits of our patience.

Waiting tests our strength and faith and, as we reflect on Abraham and Sarah waiting for a son, demonstrates the value of the gifts that can come to us with a little bit of patience.

In 2 Peter 3:9, we are reminded about how promises are delivered in the most divine time, and this is indeed one of the gifts of patience.

When our gifts arrive, they come not only in the form that best reminds us of the love of God, but remind us that they were also specially designed and destined for us, in our current state of preparation, maturity and grace and arrive as a just reward for our patience.

Human desire measures delay in the form of disappointment and this can be the default that brings us to a point of distress and unease.

But looking on the brightest side and treating delays as gifts is that one thing that will certainly offer us a sense of comfort about waiting for more gifts–some bigger, some better, some totally unexpected and timely.

Are you ready to surrender to a state of delay?

Nicole Joseph-Chin is the author of Ready to Surrender – “A pocket book of peace, power and purpose”