GIVE GOD TIME
“You say, ‘I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge uprightly.’” (Psalm 75:2)
In his delightful compendium of wisdom we call Ecclesiastes, Solomon astounds us with his “practical” wisdom. He notes, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). The word “season” implies duration, a period of time with set boundaries at the beginning and end. The word “time” implies a point in time, like right now.
God has a special kind of calendar. He keeps time in ways that no other timepiece can. God doesn’t run on Greenwich Mean Time. He clocks at His own speed; He does things in His own time.
For God, there is a time for everything, even difficult things like death, and war and grieving. God doesn’t exclude negative things from our lives; in fact, He seems to make time for them. But God promises that there is a “season” for everything, a set time, with a well defined beginning and ending. Even the bad times come to an end, when their season is up. God will see to it.
That’s why we need to constantly live by God’s timetable. Then we’ll be reminded that we need to give God time—to make the world right, to correct all the physical and verbal abuse we have taken, to take away sickness and death, to make of us what He wants us to be. God has placed “eternity in our hearts” to remind us that almost everything under heaven is temporary. The older we get and the more struggles we face, the more comforting it is to remember that God makes all things beautiful in His time, not ours.
If you feel a little overwhelmed by challenges and changes in your life, remember you always can always find strength in God, the One who will never change. When things seem to be out of control in your life, remember the Great Timekeeper, the One who is ultimately in control and will not allow your challenges to continue one moment longer than their appointed time.
God is available to comfort you through all the seasons of your life. So don’t rush things. God can make even the most difficult trial a beautiful opportunity in your life if you’ll only give Him time.
Dr. Woodrow Kroll
Scripture Reading: 2 Kings 12-13; Luke 22:1-30
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