Isaiah 7:8b  Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people.

Have you noticed that as technology improves and gets faster, we grow more impatient? (Surely I can’t be the only one!) We hold the contents of the world’s knowledge in our hands and if a webpage takes longer than a second to load we grow antsy. We don’t like to be made to wait!

Ahaz was king in Judah, the Southern Kingdom. Israel, the Northern Kingdom, had broken away after Solomon’s reign and had been Judah’s enemy ever since. They were a problem for Ahaz, but not the only one. Others were getting pushy and threatening. Ahaz consulted with Isaiah. He was a prophet of God. He would have an answer. And the good news was that Israel was soon not to be a problem! If 65 years could be considered soon.

This seems outrageous! Didn’t God understand? Ahaz had a ‘today’ problem! Yet God’s word was accurate.

We can come to God with our problems. I highly recommend that you do. But we have to understand that God is not consumed with impatience. We will not always understand the timetable on which He seems to operate. It’s easy to feel like an answer in 65 years is not an answer. But God is trustworthy, even in 65 year answers.

Can I trust God? Or should I say, will I trust God? He is good. Even when He makes me wait.

Blessings,

Pastor Russ