God is never slow from His standpoint, but He is from ours, because impetuosity and doing things prematurely are universal weaknesses.

God lives and moves in eternity , and every little detail in His working must be like Himself and have in it the majesty and measured movement, as well as the accuracy and promptness, of infinite wisdom. We are to let God do the swiftness and we do the slowness.

The Holy Spirit tells us to “be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry” (James 1:19), that is, quick to take in from God but slow to give out the opinions, the emotions of the creature.

We miss a great many things from God by not going slow enough with Him. Who would have God change His perfections to accommodate our whims? Have we not had glimpses into God’s perfections, insight into wonderful truths, quiet unfoldings of daily opportunities, gentle checks of the Holy Spirit upon our decisions or words, sweet and secret promptings to do certain things?

There is a time for everything in the universe to get ripe—and to go slow with God is the heavenly pace that gathers up all things at the time they are ripe.

What they win, who wait for God, is worth waiting for!

Going slow with God is our greatest safety!