Stalling for Time

October 19, 2024

Remember this? 

“Time,” the test proctor announced. You looked up and asked hopefully, “Just a few minutes more?”

“Time’s up,” she said with finality. You stalled for time as best you could, hoping a little more time would change things, but now you’re out of time. Finished or not, you put down your pencil and hoped for the best.

That’s the situation Nebuchadnezzar was in. He was suspicious, all too aware that any of his counselors could be plotting against him. His dream gave him an idea; he would devise a little test to see if his advisors would be honest with him. When they failed, he believed they were stalling for time for circumstances to provide an opportunity to depose him.  

“You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the time has changed. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can give me its interpretation.””

—Daniel 2:9 

How often have you stalled for time with God, hoping he would change his mind; that what he declared to be sin would no longer be wrong, or that he would renege on the call he placed on your life when you first came to Christ? God’s time hasn’t changed, nor has his holiness. If you, like Nebuchadnezzar’s advisors, have been stalling for time, hoping God would change his mind, you’re wasting your time and his. Wherever you’ve been dragging your feet, stalling for time, STOP IT! It’s time to come back and say yes to Jesus.