![]() Together, we’re still debating where several annuals should be planted throughout the garden. Wes wondered about the ideal time to re-seed the lawn. ![]() This year, I questioned the right time to trim back the rose bushes. If you garden, you know that during the early days of Spring, it can prove a challenge to know the right timing for tasks that need to be completed. Originally published as “Not in a hurry.” Independent Plus. October 28, 2021: 5. It’s only when we rest in His timing that we will have peace. Hitting dead end after dead end? We should confirm whether or not we’ve actually committed our way to Him, because He’s promised that when we acknowledge and trust Him, He will direct our paths (Proverbs 3:5-6). We waste time when we follow our own timetable. On what and how we spend our time now has an eternal impact. “Commit thy way unto the LORD trust also in him Īnd he shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37:5 God’s not in a hurry It requires us to surrender our inclination for instant gratification. Committing our way to the Lord and trusting in Him requires us to plan ahead. “Commit thy way unto the LORD trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass.” (Psalm 37:5). We prepare now to save time later.Īlthough we feel like waiting on the Lord is wasted time, waiting for God’s time inevitably always saves time. Most times when I’m making dinner, I prepare enough food in advance so we have leftovers for lunch, or something to stick in the freezer for a night when I don’t feel like cooking. We may not need protection from a physical enemy, His timing may be meant to save us from a poor financial transaction, or a bad decision with lasting ramifications. No matter how urgently we want things to happen, when we surrender our situation to Him and make His timing our timing, God will protect us. Their testimonies of God’s faithfulness and His perfect timing are a reminder that truly His ways are the best ways.ĭavid wrote in Psalm 31:15, “My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.” Even though his life was in danger, David didn’t take matters into his own hands, he surrendered his situation to God’s hands. Resting in His timing can save us from many a heartache and hurt, just ask others who are older and wiser. When things aren’t going our way, when it seems as though we’re coming up short, it’s important to remember that God uses His timing to protect us. Unlike God, we don’t know everything, and we can’t see into the future. Wondering why things aren’t going our way? Perhaps we’re not serving Him as we should. To delight ourselves in Him means delving more deeply into His Word, spending more time in conversation with Him, and going after His agenda and not our own. He will fulfill the desires of our hearts when we delight ourselves in Him. Psalm 37:4 instructs us to “Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” God knows and cares about the desires of our hearts – He fully understands what we want to happen. When we feel like waiting on God’s timing is wasted time, we should ask ourselves: Are we serving Him, or serving our own timing? There’s an old analogy that while we’re waiting on God, we should do what waiters do: Serve. ![]() He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.įor while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.īut when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,Īnd let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.īut do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.Most of us hate waiting. The Lord is good to those who wait for him,Ģ6 It is good that one should wait quietlyįor still the vision awaits its appointed time They shall mount up with wings like eagles Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.įor there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him.īut they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength He has made everything beautiful in its time. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!įor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
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