To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

God is more patient than we are because He sees us from the perspective of eternity. That’s why Moses wasn’t called to his work until age eighty. That’s why Jesus began His ministry at age thirty. That’s why Abraham’s prayer for a child wasn’t answered until it seemed too late, and that’s why our Lord showed up at the home of Lazarus after the man had died.

God doesn’t work on our timetable. In Genesis, Joseph was enslaved at age seventeen and spent about thirteen years in slavery and prison. Yet during that time, God was preparing him to become one of the most powerful men in the world. If you’re waiting for an answer from God, be patient and remember that God has perfect timing.  An anonymous little poem puts it like this:

God has perfect timing; never early, never late.
It takes a little patience and it takes a lot of faith.
But it’s truly, worth the wait!

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
Charles Spurgeon