If you have ever spent enough time in the not so developed parts of the world, you must be familiar with those ROCK CRUSHERS. I’m not talking about the heavy duty machines that practically masticate the large chunks of rocks and spit them out as small pieces. I actually mean those men and even women, who sit under the sun and patiently hammer away at the boulders, until they are reduced to small sized chippings.
Just watching them is a great lesson in patience and perseverance. Without these virtues, they will live their lives in perpetual frustration. The need for these great virtues comes from the fact that they can hammer continuously without any sign of progress, until they strike the decisive blow that literarily breaks the camel’s back. I was actually stunned and also impressed to see some women engaged in this ‘trade’. They even do it with a smile on their sweat soaked faces.
You know it’s possible that you have been making supplications unto God concerning a particular issue. You have exercised and expended your faith; you have found scriptural promises to back up your request; you have met all the pre-requisites, yet no sign that the answer is on its way. You are getting worn out at the place of prayer.
The widow in the importunity parable in Luke 18 must have felt this same way, when the judge that feared neither God nor man did not even as bother to listen to her request. She did not give up, in spite of this condescending treatment. In the end, she got what she wanted. Even Abraham heard God clearly, he was sure that it was God that promised him a son, yet he had to wait for God’s appointed time.
The God we serve is not a joker and He cannot lie or change His mind for lack of ability to perform. Whatever He has promised, shall come to pass in HIS OWN time. Our own part is to keep exercising our faith, persevere and remain patient. As long as you are sure that you are praying in line with God’s will, you can count on God to keep His Word. Keep striking like those rock crushers. It won’t be long.
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