As we search the Scriptures, God’s patience is clearly seen from the earliest times through to the present day.
His forbearance is evident in His dealings with mankind
When none righteous apart from Noah was found signalling judgement by the flood.
The Lord gave him two hundred years of witness before closing the door.
As the years of the Israelites unfold, time and again God’s patience is tried
Many times they fail to repent, despite the pleas of the prophets;
Often it takes disasters and oppression before they cry to Him for aid.
After patiently waiting for their cry, God responds by sending a deliverer to meet their needs
As a result of a persistent lack of repentance the Israelites found themselves in exile.
God never ceasing to love them kept them safe in Babylon for seventy years before the exile ended
The people returned to their homeland but once again they relapse
Into their recalcitrant ways, ignoring the mercies of their God
Trusting in their own understanding rather than acknowledging Him.
God then waits for the time planned from before the annals of time to arrive
And so it was that “....when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son”
{ History tells us this event was preceded by three hundred years of silence from God }
So the messiah comes “....born of woman….found in fashion as a man….
…..to become obedient unto death….even death on a cross “
In the giving of His Son for the sin of the world, God opened the Way for a relationship with Him.
Patiently waiting; ... for He is not willing that any should die but that all should come to repentance.
However now is the day of salvation before the Lord's promised return in judgement.
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