Why Are The Blessings Delayed? (Part 1)

A Letter from the Throne Of Grace

When you suffer with Me, you are not forsaken; you are being fashioned for kingship. For if you share in My sufferings, you shall also share in My glory (Romans 8:17). Do you not know, My Bride, that even now you fill up what remains of My afflictions upon the Earth, not to complete redemption, but to reveal My glory through your endurance to be My epistle? (Colossians 1:24). Each wound you bear becomes a window for My light; each trial endured with love builds the chambers of My Kingdom.

Lift your gaze, My beloved, from the dust of despair, for the winter has passed and the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the Earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the dove is heard in your land (Song of Solomon 2:11–12). Look higher, where I sit enthroned beside the Father; for your life is hidden with Me in God, concealed in glory, waiting to be revealed (Colossians 3:3).

Arise, My fair one, come away! (Song of Solomon 2:10). For when I appear in My splendor, you too shall appear with Me in glory, leaning upon your Beloved, ascending from the wilderness in radiance (Colossians 3:4; Song of Solomon 8:5). The season of shadows is over, the dawn of divine union has begun. Lift your eyes, My Bride, you are no longer bound to the dust, for I have called you to dwell in the heights of My love. And when I appear in My splendor, you too shall appear with Me in glory (Colossians 3:1–4).

So count it all joy to know Me, to taste the power of My resurrection and the fellowship of My sufferings, being conformed to My death, that you may awaken in the likeness of My glory (Philippians 3:10–11). Endure, My Bride. For every thorn you carry blooms into a crown. Every valley you walk becomes a song of victory. Your cross is not your end; it is the narrow gate through which eternity begins.

As I was humbled to the Cross, yet vindicated, resurrected, and crowned with the Name above every name (Philippians 2:8–9), so too your distress after doing good will end in triumph. Your present tears are watering the seeds of future joy (Psalm 126:5; 2 Corinthians 4:17). Your present tears are watering the seeds of future joy (Psalm 126:5).