never in a hurry. Alan Redpath, the late pastor of Moody Memorial Church, put it this way: “The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”5 When God develops character, He works on it throughout a lifetime. He’s never in a hurry. It is in the schoolroom of solitude and obscurity that we learn to become men and women of God. It is from the schoolmasters of monotony and reality that we learn to “king it.” That’s how we become—like David— men