Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition
“After forty years had passed on, an angel appeared to Moses…in the desert…Then the Lord said to him, ‘…Now come, I will send you back to Egypt,” (Acts 7:30, 33-34).
Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season and asks us to be still and learn before we go out again to minister. And the hours spent waiting are not lost time.
An ancient knight once realized, as he was fleeing from his enemies, that his horse needed a shoe replaced. The prudent course of action seemed to be to hurry on without delay. Yet higher wisdom told him to stop for a few minutes at the blacksmith’s along the road. Although he heard the galloping hooves of the enemies’ horses close behind, he waited until his steed was reshod before continuing his escape. Just as the enemy appeared, only a hundred yards away, he jumped into the saddle and dashed away with the swiftness of the wind. Then he knew his stopping had actually hastened his escape.
Quite often God will ask us to wait before we go, so we may fully recover from our last mission before entering the next stage of our journey and work.