Patiently Wait | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 1, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 44.

Patiently Wait.

How often we distrust God and turn back, or take our case in our own hands right on the very threshold of deliverance. A little while ago a Texas convict, who had only two years to serve, concluded that as he had always worked at the desk, he could not endure the hard labor at which he was placed, and that he had better lose his eyes than do it. Consequently he put a drug into his eyes which paralyzed the optic nerves and blinded him. If he had only waited a week, he would have been given bookkeeping, a change already decided by the warden. He could not, would not, wait, and hence his fearful, irretrievable blunder and loss. Even so professed Christians run well for a season, and then fall back because the way seems hard; and often they pause on the very threshold of deliverance. Turn not back; falter not; faint not; persevere; trust God in the dark as well as in the light, and patiently wait for His salvation.