God’s Timing: A Promise Delayed, But Not Denied
God’s Timing We humans have always been anxious travelling the days of our life. We as Christians need to learn to live a life accepting everything to happen in God’s timing for us, embracing a life of faith that prioritizes His plans over our own. We need to trust God completely with our future. It involves surrendering our timelines and expectations, recognizing that God sees the bigger picture. God’s Timing Is Perfect: Inspired from the Bible We see in the Bible just how God’s timing is perfect, inspiring us to keep the faith and hope strong in the will of God for our lives. Jesus When Jesus was twelve years old and was separated and found by his parents after three days as they visited the temple at Jerusalem for the Passover feast, He was engaged there in a theological discussions with the teachers and scholars of the law and Jewish faith. These men, the wise men of the day were amazed by Jesus’s questions to them and all that He spoke to them. They surely recognized and appreciated His wisdom for a young twelve year old boy. So Jesus was blessed with a matured wisdom, even if He was only twelve years old. Still God’s timing for Jesus to proclaim the word of God and doing His Father’s will came to Jesus only when He was baptized by John the Baptist and His fasting for forty days and forty nights, all when He had turned thirty years old. So from twelve to thirty years of age, Jesus had accepted God’s timing and will for Him. Further at the wedding at Cana, when the wine was over and His mother, Mary told Jesus that the wine was over and Jesus’s answer was… “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My time has not yet come.” John 2:4 After these words, His disciples as told by Jesus’s mother did as Jesus told them to do, thus Jesus delivers His first sign of divinity by turning water into wine at His mother’s request. Thus even Jesus had waited for the approval of His Father’s timing for Him to demonstrate His divinity as He lived on Earth. Israelites in the Wilderness Israelites were in the wilderness and it took them forty years to reach the Promised Land as was willed by God. God can power Moses to part the Red Sea and allow Israelites to cross safely as the Egyptians followed them. After the above miracle and the many we encounter in the wilderness for the Israelites in the Bible, God could easily take them to the Promised Land in a day or make any land rich and fertile and let that be the Promised Land, but surely God’s timing for the Israelites of forty years in wilderness was to prepare them in spirit and worthiness as they would reach God’s promised land. Joseph’s journeying his dreams Joseph’s story in the Bible (Genesis 37-50) as being Jacob’s favorite son but envied and hated by his brothers is another story of God’s timing for each human. Joseph was gifted to interpret dreams and had dreamt that he would not only rule over his brothers but would be a significant force of leadership and power and he had waited so many years and had undergone immense sufferings from being sold as a slave to being falsely accused and put in prison to interpreting the Pharaohs dream successfully and rewarded by being made the Governor of Egypt. God had a plan for Joseph though his life had immense sufferings involved and for many years of his life till he reached the moment of glory just as he had dreamt. Abraham: Father Of faith God promised to make Abraham into a great nation and multiply his descendants as the stars in the sky. And God promised this to Abraham before he even had a child of his own. But God is not like humans and He honors His promises. Abraham became a father at the age of hundred and his son Isaac was significant in God’s promise to Abraham be fulfilled. God’s timing for Abraham being a father at the age of hundred is all in the plan God had for descendants to come from Abraham as promised. Further, God’s timing for Abraham asking for the sacrifice of his only son, Isaac goes deeper and prayerful as in Christianity, Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac is seen a foreshadowing of Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross. Just as Abraham had willed to sacrifice his only son, God, Abba Father has sacrificed His only begotten son in Jesus. We find many a stories of faith and trust in God’s timing for His people in the Bible. Psalm 31:15 God’s Timing and Us Our Earth living timing, the life we live is always more paced we feel then to match God’s timing for us. Lack of patience, endurance, human intellect to view situations of the life we live has made us look in directions that do not align with what God wants for us. We are not even waiting or trying to figure if there is a plan that is different and more able for us then what we design ourselves. When we are praying to God, our prayers are like a shopping scheme with we asking God for all that we need, more for ourselves, followed by our family needs. It’s a long list of needs and more desires and wishes to be fulfilled. We believe and trust that God can do or there is nothing that God cannot give us. He is a miracle Deity, our Super Power God, we believe thus we go asking rather begging. So we just put the coin (our needs and petitions) in the vending (asking) machine expecting an instant wares (delivery). Patience as spoke earlier is not for this generation of the AI. God’s ways are not known to us, it can actually take time resonate not well with our attributes and mental
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