Hebrews6:12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. NIV
TO LEARN PATIENCE( A)
The children of Israel spent over 400 years in slavery. They longed for a deliverer that would liberate them from their bondage. When Moses showed up promising to take them into the promised land, in their hearts, they knew that he was sent by God. Their hearts traveled out of Egypt before their bodies left. They must have pictured how the promised land looked like and all the benefits they'll get there. I can't imagine the eagerness to exit Egypt after years of painful servitude. Husbands would have prepared their wives for the exodus and wives would have prepared children born in slavery for the new experience. However, God did not rush them into the promised land in three days, he took them through a longer route to teach them patience. Ex13:17.
Their constant murmuring in the wilderness showed that God needed to work impatience out of their lives: "And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!"( Num14:2). Whenever we hear God's promises, we start painting the pictures of God's promises, how it'll look like featuring in the future God promised us. Most times, we think it is something that'll happen immediately but most times, it doesn't happen that way. God uses the wilderness experience of life to teach us patience. Not just patience but how to wait patiently. Waiting patiently on God is not a spiritual gift that can be imparted to us, it is an art we learn as we walk with God. In a generation of fast food, high internet speed, microwave, speed train and supersonic jets, we have been wired to get things done quick. We're always in a hurry.
Why does God keep us on the waiting line? The simple answer is that God uses our waiting time to teach and prepare us for next level. If God release us into the level we desire just as we are, we may mess things up. God doesn't want sons that will sell inheritance. In the Jewish culture, first born sons are given thorough training ( often outside the home at a certain age) to take over from their parents so that the family legacy can be sustained. God also trains us( in the place of waiting) to become matured sons who can handle greatness and sustain kingdom legacies. Whatever will last must take time in the place of preparation. Whoever will last in destiny must fulfill all the course requirements in God's training school. God doesn't microwave His children in preparation for destiny. No, He doesn't. James 1:4 says, "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
Be patient with God and don't jump out of God's training school. He trains us for the promise land in the wilderness of life.