Devotional - A Divinely Ordained Delay (Part 2)
The steps of the righteous man are ordered by the Lord…Psalm 37:23 Recently I saw a post on Facebook which said that sometimes God delays us where we are because He knows that there is a storm ahead. I was really encouraged as I meditated on this thought. Our loving Father, who sees danger ahead, prevents us from moving forward as the danger ahead is not part of His plan for us. Then a few days later as I was chitchatting with my co-worker, she related how the previous afternoon she was delayed at the office until 6 pm as she could not find her car keys. She had retraced her steps to areas of the office that she had been to before and searched her bag several times. She even emptied the contents and searched the various compartments of her bag to no avail. At the end of her rope, she called out to God in her distress. Immediately, He answered by telling her to check her bag one more time. Of course, she resisted the idea because she had checked several times b...