For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
There are moments, even long periods when our hopes are stressed by the time it is taking for our dreams to be realised, leading to the emergence of doubts adding to our sense of growing unease that The Father will not deliver on His promises.
The Father's response to The Prophet Job does not explain why righteous people suffer, because life is not designed to prevent righteous people from living with their anguish. Our Father invites each of us to trust Him during those long periods filled with fear, and depression that He will not deliver on all that He has promised us.
God's timing enables Him to daily transform us into His most beloved child; the person best able to become His outreach into the lives of those He sends to us to assist, when they are at their lowest ebb seeking God's help to lift them out of their despair.
Indeed, God had kept his promise. When God had called Abraham he promised to give unto him a land as an inheritance. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.” ~ Hebrews. 11:8
The dilemma for most of us wishing to remain faithful to The Father's Word, alive in our life directing us how best to respond to His requests, is founded upon faith that The Father will deliver to us all that He has promised per His timing, and not our desires calculated to address our fear that God has forgotten us.
26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
~ John 12
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