God saw my disappointment in the canceled vacation plans, the job furlough, and the loss of time with my granddaughters during this virus outbreak. The alternative? Becoming anxious, angry, doubtful, or resentful. The secret in all our life experiences is to be at peace and accept God’s timing. Solomon explains in this chapter of Ecclesiastes that there are wonderful things in life countered with things we may not consider “good”, but it is all within God’s plan. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” Ecclesiastes 3:1.So when we question God’s timing, we are trying to fit our plans and purposes into God’s far superior timeline. God’s knowledge and wisdom are far, far greater than ours. (I don’t remember the book but his illustration stuck with me!) He might have even been generous with the dot. That tiny dot of our knowledge symbolized our knowledge compared to God’s. He illustrated it with a big circle on a page with a miniscule dot in the center. I read a book where the author compared our knowledge with that of God’s. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8-9 NLT. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.What does the Bible tell us about God’s timing? It can be so hard sometimes, especially when those I love don’t receive the desires of their hearts, or when I presume that “life’s not fair.” Bible Verses about God’s Timing One question came to my mind though, and that is how to trust God’s timing. Studying His Word, spending time in prayer, and trusting who God is are a few ways we found that help us grow our faith. Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, 'It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.Last week we looked at 5 ways to grow our faith. Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” "God shall judge the righteous and the wicked,įor there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."įor God will bring every work into judgment,Īnd from ancient times things that are not yet done,Īnd He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."'"īut, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.īut in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. Repent, and believe in the gospel."Īnd the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken. God does it, that men should fear before Him.Īnd saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. He has made everything beautiful in its time. I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. Playlist: Go to the God's Timing (topic) playlist
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