Trust the Slow Work of God

This so resonated with my soul. God has been doing a slow work in me and I have been learning to trust it more and more with each day that has passed over the last 1 1/2 years. Hope these words of wisdom and grace soak deep into your own soul today.

Trust the Slow Work of God by Reinhold Niebuhr

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. Yet it is the law of all progress that is made by passing through some stages of instability and that may take a very long time.

We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.

And so I think it is with you. Your ideas mature gradually. Let them grow. Let them shape themselves without undue haste. 

Only God could say what this new Spirit gradually forming in you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser

Do not try to force them on as though you could be today what time -- that is to say, grace --and circumstances -- acting on your own good will --  will make you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming in you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser. Amen.