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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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Peace

“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”     (Philippians 4:7) What does it mean? God’s peace is deeper than human logic. It calms our hearts and minds, even when circumstances don’t make sense. Living the Promise Lord, “Peace be with you” were the first words that you spoke on meeting the apostles after resurrection. This peace by you Jesus was a blessing that we too seek in our lives. All wealth and fame would mean nothing without your peace in our lives.  “Lord, guard our mind and heart.” We hope and trust in you alone Jesus. Let your peace always flow in our lives and living situations. Bless us with the grace to have you always in our spirit and mind so we are always enveloped in your protective peace. We make this prayer in the holy name of Jesus, Amen.     Peace

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Trust

 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding         (Proverbs 3:5) What does it mean? This verse reminds us that God’s wisdom surpasses our own. Trusting Him fully means letting go of the need to control every outcome. Living the Promise When faced with confusion or difficult decisions, pause and pray. Praying is an act of talking to God, what better moment to be in the presence of God, when in difficult moments. Pray before you plan. Don’t let anxiety guide you, trust that God sees what you cannot. Start today by surrendering all your worries to Him. He is and will be there for you always. Have faith that with Jesus besides you, there’s no difficulties that you cannot overcome. Let your prayer be… Jesus I surrender myself completely to you. Trust God

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Embracing Life, A life In God

Life in God Life happens once, but this one life features a lot. Moments filled with happiness and sorrows, gains and pains. Relations of love and hatred. Memories of companionship and lost. Life has a lot in offering. This one life is like many a life lived in one. But life always gives us an embrace of peace and hope.  Embracing “life in God” offers a profound sense of purpose and peace, transforming the way we experience the world and ourselves.  Quest for A life In God It’s my life goes the anthem. It’s like each human is born with a flag of freedom. Yes God for us was never a dictatorial creator, starting with Adam and Eve, they used their freedom to commit the first sin of mankind of disobedience of God. God always let us live a life freely, a life which was not of our own creation but a gift from the giver of life. God gave us a free will when breathing a life on earth. So we chose to live a life by ourselves then a life in God. Living our days we seem to estimate that we can live our lives by ourselves and need no external force ruling over us or lest we go to anybody for guidance or support. Thus the humans as they intellect in life, they believe in the non-existence of any God. They do not believe in any Divine force administering nature and downsize everything to science. So a life in God is something they never wish to exercise as they do not believe in the very existence of God. Being a non-believer of any religion or not being addressed as a Christian might make them feel modernized. But lacking is their wisdom in ignoring the teachings of the Holy Bible and the love of Jesus. ******* Life is a wandering deer that pants for water, the living water that is Jesus Christ, a life with Jesus is living a life in God. To all the atheist and the protestors against God, it’s requested to at least taste the waters of faith before they deny it all as a flawed drink. Seek the nectar of God’s grace and mercy that thy abandoned as bitter water of myth and falsehood.   This drink of Jesus is a drink of love and sacrifice that they miss, all for the deficit of real wisdom and their false self-assurance.     God seeks just your momentary companionship and the remaining days He grants you live freely to your will and ways. But still beautiful and wise are the beliefs and traits of the humans, which seek to live a life, a life in God.    Life in God, In the Bible A life with God in the Bible is expressed as a relationship of love, companionship, communion and hope with the Universal Creator. The Bible reveals to us of God’s greatest desire that is to be in relationship with His creation and at the highest He had placed the human race whom He made in His own image and likeness.     In Genesis 1: 26-31 Genesis 1 26-31 In the Bible we read of individuals who had a remarkable relationship with God. Truly a life with God. Moses A prominent figure in Exodus from the Bible, Moses walked closely with God after his calling and encounter with God at the burning bush. God chose him to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. He received from God the Ten Commandments that he gave the people of Israel before reaching the Promised Land. Moses faithfulness and obedience to God’s command set him apart as a true servant of God, living his years in the companionship of God, a life with God. Abraham Abraham, also known as the Father of Faith was highly devoted to God. Living his life with God, he had an amazing walk of faith with God. It was his faith that let him leave his family home and move to the place where God led him. It was his faith and life with God that in spite of their advanced age that Abraham and Sarah would have descendants as countless as the sand on the seashore or stars at night. David David was known as a man after God’s heart. He had a deep and intimate relationship with God. He was a young shepherd boy, when Samuel anointed him to be the future king of Israel. David is surely an inspiration to us normal beings all placed in sin each day and how he like us facing trials and challenges each day had constantly chosen God’s guidance and always relied on God for strength and protection. David can be our hero living our kind of life, wherein he commits sins, breaking even a few Commandments but in the end he reaches to God in repentance and finds favor with God. The Psalms, many of which were written by him are a testament of his devotion and a life in God. Peter And Paul Peter, one of Jesus’s twelve apostles was with Jesus as soon as He started proclaiming the kingdom of God and was with Jesus till his death and resurrection and further doing the will of Jesus of proclaiming and spreading the word of God to different parts of the world. He was very close to Jesus and thus when the Lord asked him “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. Peter surely was living a life in God, Jesus. Originally Saul, he had an encounter of the risen Lord after he was persecuting all of Jesus apostles and followers. This spiritual encounter with the Lord changed his life. Following his baptism, Saul immediately began preaching the gospel about Jesus to

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