by Dick Innes ~ ACTS International http://www.actsweb.org

“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little” (Isaiah 28:10).

Do you ever feel like you are spinning your wheels, in all your efforts you don’t seem to be getting anywhere, or even perhaps that your work for God is in vain?

“When nothing seems to help,” Jacob Riis said, “I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it — but all that had gone before.”

Or think of Michelangelo who said, “I saw the angel in the marble and kept chiseling until I set it free.”

And that’s the way God works in our lives. I’m always in a hurry. He rarely, if ever, is. With God it’s precept upon precept, line upon line — here a little, there a little — always working in my life to help me grow and become the person he wants me to be.

And how can I see this? Mostly it’s when I look back over the years and see how God has led and directed me every step of the way.

He’ll do the same for all who commit and trust their life to him every day.

Suggested prayer: “Dear God, thank you for your eternal patience with me, for never giving up on me, and for working in my life to help me become all the you planned and envisioned for me to be. Gratefully in Jesus’ name. Amen.”