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Beware of Delays! They May Ruin You and Cause You to Regret.
This is the continuation and the concluding part of this story.
The first part of it, “Beware of Delays! They May Ruin You and Cause You to Regret – Part 1” was published on this blog last Monday.
Check it out, and please, leave your comments at the end of the story, if you have not already done so.
Now, to today’s topic, “what delay is and what it’s not!”
What Delay Is and What It’s Not!
Delay is dangerous.
No delay is good.
Contrary to what may you think and/or believe, all delays are dangerous.
You may be asymmetrically opposed to these comments, but that’s the fact and the truth.
Question: Why is delay dangerous?
Answer: Delay is dangerous because it is the handiwork of the devil, as a subtle attempt to steal God’s glory.
How?
I’ll explain.
Don’t we always sing, “You are the Lord, that is your name, you’ll never share your glory with anyone, Almighty God, that is your name?”
Since we sing it almost every blessed day and believe it in our heart, why then do we thank or show appreciation to delays for saving us from certain misfortunes or for bringing us some blessings, when Satan the devil is the architect of all delays?
As nothing good comes from Satan, so is there nothing good about the delay.
Not even one.
The only thing that delay is known for, spiritually speaking, is regrets, pains, and sorrow.
In case you do not know, God hates delay whose other names are “defer,” “put off,” “linger,” “dally,” “postpone,” “retard,” “hinder,” and “procrastination.”
The Holy Bible talks about the delay and warns us against it.
Why, then, would God who detests delay turn around to bless you through it when He is not a person who double-speak?
When something good happens to you, as a result of what you see as a delay, and you begin to think and believe that not all delays are dangerous, you need to think again, because you’re about to offend God.
It was God who brought you that favour or blessing, and not delay.
The delay you thought was responsible for the favour or blessing that you received, simply coincided with the time that God had planned to release that favour or blessing to you.
Do you understand this explanation?
If not, I would advise you to pause a little bit and meditate about it until it sinks into your soul and takes root there.
Again, if you’re praying and expecting something good from God, say school admission, job, appointment, promotion, career development, contract, marriage, or children, and it hasn’t come through, since you started expecting it, that is not a delay.
Do you know why?
Let me explain, why.
It is not a delay because you and God did not agree on the time that you’ll get or receive it.
God cannot, therefore, be held over a delay for what He did not agree with you, ab initio.
But, if both of you, you and God, had unanimously agreed on a particular time and God failed to fulfil His own part of the deal, which I know, full well, that He’ll NEVER do, that could be termed as a delay.
It is our duty to pray and ask for favours and blessings from God, and it is the duty of God to grant us our request at a time He thinks is most suitable for us to receive it, and not at our own expected time.
That is why we always say, “God’s time is the best.”
It amuses me on end when I hear or see people eulogizing ‘delays’ for having spared them some misfortune or afforded them success on certain occasions.
Anybody who ascribes his or her safety or success in a particular situation, to delay, as we saw in the stories of Mr. and Mrs. Uzochikwa, Aaron, and Ella, in my last post, does so out of ignorance of how God works.
Pardon me for sounding religious and like a professional preacher.
I am not one, yet it is pertinent that I put things in their right perspective, here.
To do that, I would like to start by pointing out that delay was not responsible for the favour received by Mr. and Mrs. Uzochikwa, Aaron, and Ella, as they erroneously believed.
They were simply saved and favoured by the grace of God.
Short and simple!
Mr. and Mrs. Uzochikwa and Aaron believed that they would have died if they had boarded the ill-fated aircraft and car.
Who told them that lie?
That was a false belief unless they wanted us to believe that those who boarded the crashed car and crashed aircraft died because they left for their destination on time, which was not true.
If they, Mr. and Mrs. Uzochikwa and Aaron, were not destined to die that day, even if they had boarded the crashed car and crashed aircraft, they wouldn’t have died, either.
Maybe God would have even used them to prevent the injuries and death suffered by those who were injured and those who died.
You need to be spiritual to understand the foregoing explanations, and I pray that God will grant you the required understanding to do so.
God saved the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Uzochikwa and Aaron and gave Ella a husband for the best reason known to Him, as He is the only One who has the final say on who receives any type of favour or blessing, at any given time.
For Aaron and Mr. and Mrs. Uzochikwa to say or believe that it was a delay that saved their lives from those accidents and for Ella to believe that it was her delay in getting married that helped her find her right man, was very unfortunate and highly regrettable.
It is true that they all went to their different places of worship to hold a thanksgiving service to God, but that was a thanksgiving done the wrong way, because they gave too much respect to ‘delay’ instead of to God, who, as a matter of fact, did all the saving and all the blessing.
If you gained admission into a school, secured a job, won a contract, acquired a property, or found a wife or husband as a result of what you perceived as a delay, then you neither understand how God works nor the fact that good things come from God alone and never from delays.
God does not favour people through delays.
Not at all!
How can He do that when He hates delays?
God save and grant us favour by His power and grace at His most appropriate time, and not through delays.
The point I am making here is that people, we, you and I, must stop believing the false theory that some delays are not dangerous or that not all delays are dangerous.
All delays are dangerous.
Believing otherwise would be tantamount to sharing God’s glory with Satan, the architect and creator of delays.
The delays you erroneously believed or thought were not dangerous were occasions when God’s blessing for you coincided with the time you termed as a delay.
The common saying that “delay is dangerous” is still as valid as when it was first used.
Since all the major religions in the world preach against delay, in all its forms, why then should you or any other right-thinking person celebrate ‘delay’, for any reason, instead of God?
I don’t get it!
Delay does not save or favour anybody.
It is God who saves and grants us favour in His own time, not delay.
There is nothing good about delays. They may ruin you and cause you to regret.
You can read more about delays in Odehi Okuofo’s article.
Beware of Delays! They May Ruin You and Cause You to Regret – Part 2. THE END.
