Waiting on the Lord

This morning (December 5, 2014), I was thinking about my conversion story I shared on the previous post. When I first prayed about Joining the LDS Church, my prayer was not answered. There was nothing. I wondered why I didn't get an answer when the missionaries promised me I would. Some days later, the answer came very powerfully. I couldn't deny it although it would have been convenient to do so. The question comes, why did the answer come later than I expected?

The Lord has a timetable. Far be it for this mortal to try to figure all such things out. One aspect, however, is the fact if my answer had been immediate, it would have been too easy. It took work in the form of pondering and more prayer. We don't know why the timetable is the way it is, but in the grand scheme of things, the Lord is the ultimate chess master. Even though it's been fifty years since my conversion, I'm still figuratively learning to play the game.