I have discovered that God's timing is just as important as God's will. He wants us to know that His timing is always perfect, in every aspect of our experience.
Trusting God often requires not knowing how God is going to accomplish what needs to be done and not knowing when He will do it. God uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.
Many people want change, but they don't want to go through the waiting process. If we wait the wrong way, we'll be miserable; but if we decide to wait God's way, we can become patient and enjoy the wait. Patience is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. It's developed only under trial, so we must not run from difficult situations.
As we develop patience, the Bible says we finally feel completely satisfied—lacking nothing. We learn to trust God by going through many experiences that require trust. By seeing God's faithfulness over time, we learn to gradually place our trust in Him.
God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan. When we accept God's timing, we can learn to live in hope and enjoy our lives while God is working on our problems. We know that God's plan for our lives is good, and when we entrust ourselves to Him, we can experience total peace and happiness.
The book of Genesis tells the story of Joseph, who waited many years for the dream God had given him, to come to pass. He was falsely accused and imprisoned before the time came for him to do what God had shown him he was to do. In the book of Exodus we learn that God led the Israelites the longer, harder way on their journey to the Promised Land because He knew they were not yet ready to go in. They had to go through some very trying situations and they wasted a lot of time wondering about God's timing, but God never failed to take care of them and show them what He wanted them to do. The same is true in our lives. God's training period simply requires us to do what He tells us to do when He tells us to do it...without questioning or trying to figure everything out.
Proverbs 16:9 says, A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure. When God directs our paths, He sometimes leads us in ways that don't make sense to us so we're not always going to understand everything. Trust in, God, and don’t make the mistake of trying to figure everything out
When we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, in due time, He will exalt us. "Due time" is God's time, when God knows we're ready, not when we think we're ready. The sooner we understand and accept that, the sooner God can work His plan in our lives.
After a seed is planted, there is total darkness and hardness below the ground. The plant has to push its way through. It takes time for this to happen. Above the ground, you can't tell anything is happening. That's the way our lives are. After we plant seeds of obedience, we feel like nothing is happening. And like the seed that finally bursts through the ground into a beautiful green plant, our seeds of obedience finally break forth into a beautiful manifestation of God in our lives.
Soon, the desires of your heart begin to manifest—and you see your dreams come to pass. Blessings begin to chase you.
God causes things to happen at exactly the right time! Your job is not to figure out when, but to make up your mind that you won't give up, ever. God is not a quitter. He believes for you and me. I believe in His perfect timing and I believe in Him. I believe, He is the God of impossibles.
REMEMBER
God works behind the scenes in untold ways to protect us and provide for us. Consider the examples:
- A woman past the childbearing years,
Elizabeth - A very young Mary, conceives a child miraculously. Sometimes God is ready for us to move ahead before we think it is logical to do so.
- Mary gives birth to Jesus in the humble setting of a stable. We can think we're unprepared to do something because we lack certain material benefits. In fact, these may not be at all necessary to carry out what Christ wants us to do.
Furthermore examples from the Bible showing you how God made many of them wait for what He was wanting to do in their lives:
- Jesus had to wait until He was 30, before He was baptised with the Holy Spirit and anointed to go on His three and half year mission.
- Moses had to wait 40 years before he was sent in by God to rescue the children of
Israel
- The Israelites had to wait for 430 years before God delivered them from the Egyptians
- David had to wait for 13 years before he became king of
Israel
- Abraham had to wait 25 years for the birth of his son Isaac
- Noah had to wait for 120 years from the time God told him to build the ark until the time of the flood actually occurring
- The apostles had to wait 10 days after Jesus had ascended before they had received the Holy Spirit.
I believe the reason God likes to make us wait from time to time is to not only test our faith in Him and to properly prepare us for what He is making us wait for, but to also develop the fruit of patience and determination in us.
Conclusion
God is totally perfect and we are not, God will always know best as to not only what He will want to bring into our lives, but He will always know best as to when to bring those certain things into our lives.
OBEDIENCE is the pre-requisite to all of God’s marvellous dealings in our lives.
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