Impatience With God (1 of 9)
Series: Moses and Friends
Jeff Strite
Acts 7:18-34
OPEN: Caitlin was a 4 year old and an only child. She really wanted to have a baby sister and kept pestering her mother asking when she could have one. One morning Caitlin told her mother, "Maybe if we both prayed out loud, God would hear us."
So they prayed together. As soon as they finished, Caitlin asked, "What did he say?"
Her mother explained that it doesn't work that way; sometimes it takes a long time to get an answer.
Caitlin was indignant: "Do you mean we were praying to an answering machine?"
Caitlin wanted an answer from God.
She didn't want to be put off.
She didn't want to talk to some celestial answering machine.
She didn't want God to "get back to her" some time
- She wanted answer NOW!!!
- And she was impatient because God didn't seem to answer quickly enough.
You know… you don't have to be a 4 yr old to suffer from that kind of impatience.
ILLUS: The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted for his poise and quiet manner. At times, however, even he suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him pacing the floor like a caged lion.
"What's the trouble, Dr. Brooks?" asked the friend.
"The trouble is that I am in a hurry." said Brooks. "but God isn't."
It's easy to become impatient with God
Even some of the great men and women of Scripture grew impatient.
A case in point is Moses.
Now Moses is one of the greatest men of the Bible.
He is a model for preachers and elders and men of all walks of life.
In fact God told Moses that one day He would raise up a prophet like unto him - that prophet being Jesus. And so Moses was a model even for Christ.
And he was a man of great faith.
Hebrews 11 tells us that the decision Moses made to chose his own people over the Egyptian culture he'd been raised in - was a decision based on faith.
But Moses' faith here was marred by impatience.
And his impatienc ...
Series: Moses and Friends
Jeff Strite
Acts 7:18-34
OPEN: Caitlin was a 4 year old and an only child. She really wanted to have a baby sister and kept pestering her mother asking when she could have one. One morning Caitlin told her mother, "Maybe if we both prayed out loud, God would hear us."
So they prayed together. As soon as they finished, Caitlin asked, "What did he say?"
Her mother explained that it doesn't work that way; sometimes it takes a long time to get an answer.
Caitlin was indignant: "Do you mean we were praying to an answering machine?"
Caitlin wanted an answer from God.
She didn't want to be put off.
She didn't want to talk to some celestial answering machine.
She didn't want God to "get back to her" some time
- She wanted answer NOW!!!
- And she was impatient because God didn't seem to answer quickly enough.
You know… you don't have to be a 4 yr old to suffer from that kind of impatience.
ILLUS: The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted for his poise and quiet manner. At times, however, even he suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him pacing the floor like a caged lion.
"What's the trouble, Dr. Brooks?" asked the friend.
"The trouble is that I am in a hurry." said Brooks. "but God isn't."
It's easy to become impatient with God
Even some of the great men and women of Scripture grew impatient.
A case in point is Moses.
Now Moses is one of the greatest men of the Bible.
He is a model for preachers and elders and men of all walks of life.
In fact God told Moses that one day He would raise up a prophet like unto him - that prophet being Jesus. And so Moses was a model even for Christ.
And he was a man of great faith.
Hebrews 11 tells us that the decision Moses made to chose his own people over the Egyptian culture he'd been raised in - was a decision based on faith.
But Moses' faith here was marred by impatience.
And his impatienc ...
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