HE WILL SURELY COME

“And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” (KJV) Genesis 50:24

There is nothing as hard as the word, Waiting. Waiting on something that was promised to you. We are in the era of Online orders, kila kitu tunangoja Delivery, either from Ocha to Nrb, ama from Tao, ikuje na Mathree za Lopha, or that which we normally use. I remember one time, I was waiting for a parcel from CBD, instead ya kupelekwa kwa ofisi ya Lopha, ilipelekewa Kadere fulani, noma ilikuwa, that was not the original driver for that Ma3, alikuwa msee wa Squad, sema mzigo, kupita stage ikaenda Juja, when I followed up, I heard the bus was at Allsopps again headed to town, let me tell you, I spent 2 days trying to track that mzigo, but finally got it on the third day, the wait, the calls, the imagination, that I had lost my parcel. I kept blaming myself, and wished that I had just gone for it myself in tao since impatience kept building and building.

When Joseph was about to die, he told his people, God will surely come, and this I can tell you for free, He does eventually show up, and He shows up on time, never late.

Those words by Joseph were not wishful thinking. They were not the encouraging words of an old man trying to comfort his family before he died. They were words forged through experience. Joseph had lived long enough to know that God may seem silent, but He is never absent. He had watched the Lord take him from the pit to Potiphar’s house, from Potiphar’s house to prison, and from prison to Pharaoh’s palace. Every chapter of his life looked disconnected when he was living it, but when he looked back, he could trace the fingerprints of God on every single page.

That is the difficult part about waiting. We only understand God’s timing when we are looking through the rear-view mirror. While we are in the middle of the process, everything feels confusing. We count days while God counts purpose.

We count delays while God counts preparation. We count closed doors while God is building corridors we cannot yet see.

Israel had been given a promise hundreds of years before Joseph uttered these words. God had promised Abraham a land flowing with milk and honey. Yet when Joseph was dying, the descendants of Abraham were still living in Egypt. Nothing about their current reality looked like the promise. If anything, Egypt would eventually become the place of slavery and bondage. Yet Joseph refused to allow the present situation to rewrite what God had already spoken.

That is a lesson many of us need today. Your current location is not always your permanent destination.

Where you are today does not cancel what God has said about tomorrow.

The environment may change. People may change. Circumstances may become more difficult. Time may continue moving. But God’s promises do not expire because they have been delayed.

Notice Joseph’s confidence. He did not say, “God might come.” He did not say, “Perhaps God will remember you.” He declared with certainty, “God will surely come.” There was no hesitation in his words because there was no hesitation in God’s character. Joseph understood something many believers forget. The certainty of God’s promise does not depend on the speed of its fulfillment. A delayed promise is still a promise.

Many of us become impatient because we measure God with human calendars. We expect January prayers to have February answers. We expect immediate responses because that is the world we live in. We have same-day deliveries, instant messages, express shipping, and real-time tracking. We are uncomfortable with anything that takes time. Yet the Kingdom of God has never operated on the principle of urgency. It has always operated on the principle of maturity. God is never in a hurry because He is never behind schedule.

Sometimes the waiting season is where your faith develops muscles it could never have grown in the season of fulfillment. Waiting teaches dependence. Waiting teaches surrender. Waiting teaches us to trust the Giver more than the gift. Anyone can praise God after the miracle has happened. It takes a deeper faith to worship while the miracle is still on its way.

Imagine how many Israelites were born and died in Egypt without seeing the Exodus. To many of them, Joseph’s words may have sounded impossible. Generation after generation grew up under increasing oppression. The promise probably became a family story rather than an expectation. Yet heaven had not forgotten. God’s silence never meant God’s absence. His delay never meant His denial.

Then one day, exactly as Joseph had declared, God came. He raised Moses. He confronted Pharaoh. He split the Red Sea. He fulfilled every word He had spoken centuries earlier. Not one promise failed. The same God who spoke to Abraham remembered Isaac. He remembered Jacob. He remembered Joseph. He remembered Israel.

That should encourage every Reader today. God has not forgotten your name. He has not misplaced your file. Your prayers have not been lost in heaven’s archives. Your tears have not evaporated into nothingness. Every prayer you prayed, every promise He gave you, every moment you wondered whether He was still working, He has seen it all.

Perhaps you have been waiting for restoration in your family. Maybe you have been waiting for that job opportunity, healing, marriage, children, financial breakthrough, ministry, or open door. Maybe everyone around you seems to be receiving their answers while yours remains pending. Do not interpret heaven’s silence as heaven’s rejection.

Sometimes the greatest evidence that God is working is not what you can see but what He is preparing behind the scenes.

Joseph’s life teaches us that God specializes in divine timing. If Joseph had become Prime Minister one year earlier, one month earlier, or even one day earlier, the entire purpose of God could have been disrupted. Every delay in Joseph’s journey was actually positioning him for the exact moment when nations would need him. Looking back, every pit, every prison cell, every forgotten season suddenly made sense.

So if your heart is growing weary because the answer has not yet arrived, borrow Joseph’s words. Preach them to yourself every morning. Declare them over your family. Speak them over your circumstances. Remind your soul that the God who promised cannot lie. His timetable may not satisfy our impatience, but it will always accomplish His purpose.

When all is said and done, history has proven one thing over and over again. God keeps His word. He may not come according to our watch, but He always comes according to His will.

And this I can tell you for free, just as Joseph told Israel before he closed his eyes for the last time: God will surely come. Hold on. Keep trusting. Keep praying. Keep serving. Keep believing. The One who made the promise is faithful, and when His appointed time comes, you will testify that He was never late.

He will surely come.