I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.How many times do we ask God to do something amazing or supernatural? How many times do we despair, or question Him, when He doesn't? We wonder why God does not make our ways easier, the paths for us to walk carefree, or why he doesn't just make some business deal go wonderfully and us wealthy as a result?
I think this verse contains much of the answer to these questions. God is so much bigger than we can comprehend. With that comes the power to do amazing things. However, we are not supernatural, but limited. We cannot see what God's long-term plans are. What he gives to us, is only what we are capable of using. Tomorrow, God could send someone to me with a job offer for $100,000 as the CISO of a big company. But I seriously doubt He will, because I'm not ready for that type of position yet. I don't know what I would need to know in order to properly discharge those responsibilities. If I tried, I would be very quickly overwhelmed on all sides, and either forced out or easily manipulated by others for their agendas. Therefore, if God wants me to end up in that type of position (though I'm not saying He does), He will not just drop it on me, but will train me slowly, as I am ready and able to process the lessons, so that when that theoretical day occurs, I am able to step into the job properly and bring praise to Him in the process.
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