How do you feel about timing? Do you believe there is a time for everything? Or do you want everything right now? Is there something you are waiting for the right time for it to come to fruition? Do you try to move things forward to occur ahead of the proper time?
We can think of several things that must occur at the right time. Marriage proposals are often thought out and planned to occur at a specific time and place. Though we may not be able to choose the specific time, a baby’s birth occurs at the right time for it.
Our timing is not always perfect. We may be early for some occasions and late for others. For many of them, the timing is not as important as we might make it out to be. On the other hand, there are some occasions when the timing must be right. Delivering the punch line of a joke must be timed perfectly and delivered perfectly to achieve the maximum effect.
God has put his plan in motion and everything in his plan is executed at the right time—perfect timing. It was at the perfect moment that he parted the Red Sea. He perfectly timed Joseph being recognized as an interpreter of dreams. He sent his Son, Jesus Christ, at the right time to carry out His mission.
God continues to have perfect timing for us, even if we do not always think so. He puts us in the right place at the right time. In fact, it is through his perfect timing and putting me in the right place that I am now a pastor. I firmly believe he sent to different places to gain experiences that would help me in my ministry. I’ve lived in a few different states, visited many more, and been to foreign countries. Each of those jobs and locations gave me different experiences.
Might I suggest we take time to look back over our lives, even if just the past year, to take stock in how God has worked in our lives. Think about the experiences. Think about the people you have met. Think about lessons learned or could be learned from them. God’s timing is perfect. He puts us in places to experience and learn what he wants to teach us.
I pray we all review our lives and how God has worked in them. I pray we look back over the past year to learn the lessons God wanted to teach us. I pray each one of us believe God’s timing is perfect. Review your life. Review the past year. Learn the lessons God is teaching. Trust God’s timing.
Galatians 4:4-5 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.
Marty Pressey 