Why does God wait so long?

Why do you think God often waits before answering our prayers, keeping us in the storms of life for a while, before he answers our prayers? . Why does he wait until there is humanly speaking no hope or solution for a crisis?
The Bible doesn't tell us. But we do know that God is a God of perfect timing. He waits until just the right time so that we can learn, grow , come closer to him and during this time be educated for our place and roll in his community.

We see this with the Israelites in Egypt. Why did God wait for 300 years before taking His people out of Egypt? He waited until they realized that God was their only hope. He waited until just the right moment.

Deut 8:2-3 and 5 explains this in detail, saying: Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. (3) He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. (5) Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

The direct route from Egypt to Palestine would take only eleven days by foot. But God took the Israelites a way which took over 40 years.

God waits until just the right moment, because God is teaching us humility and discipline. He is making us more and more into his image and likeness. He teaches us that man does not live by bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord!

Were you yesterday in church to be fed on the words from the mouth of the Lord!
Will you make time for personal devotions today, and every day, to be fed on the words from the Lord?

May you be blessed when you learn the life changing and life supporting value of personal time with God and of time with God in fellowship with his Church!!