Eleven Days // 40 years

This morning I read this on Lifechurch.tv‘s blog:

“Normally, it takes only eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea…” (Deut. 1:2, NLT) I stopped right there. I couldn’t believe what I just read: Eleven days? Really? ELEVEN DAYS!?! So, what’s the big deal? Well, what should have taken the Israelites about ELEVEN DAYS took them FORTY YEARS…or, by simple calculation: 14,600 DAYS!

…There’s so much more to this story (no doubt, the battle for the promised land would have still been there) but the questions for now are these: What is taking us years that God could do in days?  What issue has handcuffed you for years that you could be on the way to defeating in a few weeks if you listened to God, faced it head on and seriously dealt with it?  Eleven days or forty years? It is up to us.

Totally agree.

Totally disagree as well. I think I’m on the flip side of this. I’m trying to make some things happen in days when God wants to make those things happen in a longer period, mainly for the purpose of preparation and growth. Its a long frustrating process at times that I don’t always fully understand. I wonder personally how much it is “up to us,” and how do you tell the difference when it’s “up to us” or “up to Him,” and when do you know that something should take days and not years?