Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 ESV
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: [2] a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; [3] a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; [4] a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; [5] a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; [6] a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; [7] a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; [8] a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. [9] What gain has the worker from his toil? [10] I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. [11] He has made everything beautiful in its time. 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.

Timing, the old saying goes, is everything. There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity. All earthly endeavours in their appropriate time are productive and fruitful.
And in the spiritual realm, timing is crucial. God’s perfect will for you is directly related to His perfect timing! According to Vs 11 He’ll only make things beautiful in His time-appropriated by Him, not man.
Everything has its time and season. God by his providence governs the world and determines things and operations to particular times and seasons but if we neglect or ignore the appointed seasons, we sin against this providence and become the authors of our own disappointments.
God gave man the portion of duration called time; the duration in which all the things of nature, of animals, and intellectual beings, are carried on.
Time in the general sense of “duration,” or passing moments, is noted in Genesis 4:3; 26:8; Job 15:32.
God’s purposes are accomplished as we discover His perfect will.
God is time, the creator of the universe is not subject to man chronological clock of 24 hours as expressed by 2 Peter 3:8 which reminds us that God has His own sense of timing. God does not move in our timing. He is never late, but He is usually not early either.
We must learn to trust God’s perfect timing.
Time is arranged and ordered by the Lord for seasons, event and people.
We all have issues with patience, waiting, delays and slowness but God works through all these to His glory.
So, if you have a vision and are waiting for it, as God’s Word declares in Habakkuk 2:2, 3, there is an appointed time for the fulfilment of the vision.
Because God operates on an eternal calendar according to Psalm 90:4, His perfect plan will be fulfilled when the time is right not when yours is.
Galatians 4:4 reiterate Vs 1 that there is indeed a set, appropriate and specific time for everything when that fullness of time comes—the time which God in his infinite wisdom counts as best, things will work on the power of the Holy Spirit and not by your efforts. Abraham and Sarah had to wait a long time before God’s promise came to pass, but it finally did. Genesis 21:1-3. Whatever promises God made to you that you are waiting for, will happen at God’s perfect time.
Psalm 27:14 encourages us to wait for God’s timing, even when we feel like it’s taking too long, we must avoid the temptation of running ahead of God and taking matters into our hands-that is what Sarah did and ended up with Ishmael.
Even when we feel delayed, we must learn to look for god’s purpose in the delay because according to psalm 33:20 God alone is our help, making it that divine delays protect us and stops us from burning and crashing.
God’s perfect timing requires trust on your part, patience in endurance and total commitment which all brings God’s beautiful blessing in time, Vs 11.
That which has been is, now and that which is to be has already been. God’s perfect time is the best.
Shalom