GOD’S PERFECT TIME


Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 AMP
There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven—
[2] A time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
[3] A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear 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 throw away stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing.
[6] A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away.
[7] A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to keep silent 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 profit is there for the worker from that in which he labors?
[10] I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.
[11] He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

Time is everything! There is an appropriate occasion for every human event or activity on earth. All earthly endeavors at 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.
Everything has its time and season. God by His providence governs the world and determines things and operations to times and seasons but if we neglect or ignore the appointed seasons, we sin against this providence and become the authors of our disappointments.
God established is set time for whatever we ask the moment we pray. When we understand the time has already been scheduled by God it takes all the pressure off us to perform. According to Isaiah 25:1, God’s time and plans for us were formed long before you, they are not last-minute but a long-assuredly timed.
God gave man the portion of duration called time; the duration in which all the things of nature are carried out.
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 subjected to man’s chronological clock of 24 hours as expressed in 2 Peter 3:8 which reminds us that God has His set timing. God does not move in our time. He is never late, but He is usually not early either.
We must learn to trust God’s perfect timing.
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 fulfillment 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 in Genesis 21:1-3. Whatever you are waiting on God for, will happen at His 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 time requires trust on your part, patience in endurance, and total commitment which all bring God’s beautiful blessing in time.
That which has been now and that which is to have already been. God’s perfect time is the best.
Shalom

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