Many of us ask God to make us more like Him, to take over our lives so that we will reflect the beauty of His characters. God is always willing to come near to those who are earnestly seeking Him in prayer. However, many of us are not ready for God's plan for changing our lives. Take for example, the children of Israel who cried to God for deliverance from their Egyptian oppressors: "And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them." (Exod. 3:9 NIV)
God sent Moses to lead the way to their freedom. Although God heard the prayers of His children, He couldn't take them at once to the Promised Land because they were not ready to be a nation that could reflect the Kingdom of Heaven. They first had to suffer trial after trial for forty years in the wilderness before they would be ready to inherit the Promised Land. In our christian walk, we are small reflections of Israel as we strive to reach our final destination -- the Kingdom of Glory. We meet trials, we fall short and lose faith; but God is molding us and burning us in the flame of tribulation, as shown in 1 Peter 4:12, "Do not be surprised at thye painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you."
God bless us!
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