The Elder said: “If you ask something from God, and He will not hear you soon, you should not feel sorry for not beig wiser than God.”
God acts with forbearance. The reasons are the following: either you are unworthy for the meeting of your request, and thus you will be harmed if God fullfils your demand, or the condition and the course of your heart is not proportional to your demands, or you have not reached the spiritual levels so that you can accept the demand you ask for.
We must not force ourselves to accept things that still do not bear the burden. In ths way, God protects us from spoiling what He granted us.
What we get easily, we quickly lose it, while one thing we get with hard work, we keep it carefully as if it were something precious.
Saint Isaac of Syros
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr