Why did it take 29 years? Since God is God, why didn't He do it right-away?
God planned everything before creation and we are living that plan. I was an alcoholic when he revealed himself to me on Dec. 8, 1979. Six days later I was sober and I've been sober for 31 years. This is why he came to me at that time because I was on the verge of drinking myself to death. I almost died earlier that year in the dt's.
About 3 1/2 years later, he removed my desire to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day. Then one year later, he got me involved in Christianity and that's when I was introduced to the Bible.
He gave me a very stong desire to read the Bible and for two years, I read it every moment I could and then he removed that desire. Then he allowed me to get involved in church and Bible study, which I fell in love with.
During this time, he did several miracles through my faith to keep me focused on him while I was falling deeper in love with the church and Bible study. In 1992, he began to use humiliation to get me to quit going to church and by the spring of 1993, after five humiliations, he got me to quit.
I was very angry at God for taking me away from something I loved so much but I knew he didn't want me in the church anymore. He let me be for six years and in 1999, my hand eczema flared up again after he healed them in 1992. I had a very bad case of this disease that almost forced me out of my high paying construction job. God healed it at that time and for 7 years, they were perfect until it came back again. After a few days, he gave me the understanding to ask him for another healing and by the next day, my hands were perfect again.
This was another round of God working in my life to get me sinless and by June of 2008, he succeeded. It took him about six months just to get me to repent of lust so he could change my genetic trait that causes that sin. He humiliated me so badly that I almost lost my relationship with a woman he found for me in Spain in the summer of 2002, one year after my ex-wife divorced me. He used my lust to force me away from my three sons in California. He didn't want me to be distracted with them but he found me this woman who is very independant and beautiful.
He used her to get me to repent of my lust so he his reasons for waiting and doing his work at the right moments.
You have to consider a man like Moses who was only in his thirties when he met God. Then God let him sit for 50 years before he used him for his work. Everything is in God's timing, not ours. We don't have to ask him why it took him so long to get us sinless because he lets us know how he worked with us long before we ever met. He gave me a dream when I was five years old that was a prophecy about me that hasn't happened yet. It's about the men who are going to kill me soon.
It's not easy at all to be a saint in this world when everyone hates you.