[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0704":3},"JULY 4\r\nFor the vision is yet for an appointed time ... though it tarry, wait for It,, because it will surely come, it will not tarry (Hab. 2:3).\r\nIn the charming little booklet Expectation Comer, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord's treasure houses, and\r\namong many other wonders there revealed to him was the \"Delayed Blessing Office,\" where God kept certain things, prayed for, until\r\nthe wise time came to send them.\r\nIt takes a long time for some pensioners to learn that delays are not denials. Ah, there are secrets of love and wisdom in the\r\n\"Delayed Blessings Department,\" which are little dreamt of! Men\r\nwould pluck their mercies green when the Lord would have them ripe. \"Therefore will the Lord WAIT, that He may be gracious until you\"\r\n([sa. 30:18). He is watching in the hard places and will not allow\r\none trial too many; He will let the dross be consumed, and then He will come gloriously to your help.\r\nDo not grieve Him by doubting His love. Nay, lift up your head, and begin to praise Him even now for the deliverance which is on the\r\nway to you, and you will be abundantly rewarded for the delay which has tried your faith.\r\nO Thou of little faith,\r\nGod hath not failed thee yet!\r\nWhen all looks dark and gloomy, Thou dost so soon forget-\r\nForget that He has led thee, And gently cleared thy way;\r\nOn clouds has poured His sunshine, And turned thy night to day.\r\nAnd if He's helped thee hitherto,\r\n\r\nHe will not fail thee now;\r\nHow it must wound His loving heart To see thy anxious brow!\r\nOh! doubt not any longer, To Him commit thy way,\r\nWhom in the past thou trusted, And is \"just the same today.\"\r\n--Selected.",1783499793176]