In God's Time

Lesson 7 of 10 Why we may be missing God’s Blessings

7. In God’s Time

Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 assures us:

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which 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;

In God’s time (a misnomer) the things we think we need to function satisfactorily appear very differently. We often mumble, “God’s time is not our time,” without really grasping the truth held within that concept. God resides beyond and outside our time frames. He created time for us to measure and determine night from day. Later it became a method of determining months, and years of our allotted span of existence on this earth and in this time. Outside the sphere of time as we know it to be, there is no running of time; there is no time. But, occurrences appearing in each life span is per-planned by God. We cannot normally, as did Saint John, view beyond our own little man disrupted world. When Adam withdrew from God’s plan for us it shook the universe. Decay of all things began and humans began to want. When they chose to do things their way, God withdrew as their keeper. Satan took over and added torments to their existence. He became ruler of worldly things. Today we clearly see what “their way” had deteriorated perfection to corruption. Out of the stench of sin on earth rises petitions to God. Seldom thanks and praises are sent heavenward, just wants and needs. God is a jealous God. He holds us to himself without frills. John saw the truth:

Rev. 4: 11 “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

Rev. 4:1 “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:11 John heard from heaven: “Saying, I'm Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:”

You surly observed that God did not say He was God until the end of time. Time ends for us when we enter into eternity where God resides. There is no time in the eternal. All things happen simultaneously: past, present and future are one.

We must believe that will answer out plea. We must praise Him for that faith. We may observe that we are waiting. One can only wait in time. God is not waiting. What he will do he has already done. We wait for his will to intermingle with our time. We must grow in dependence on Him, ask through Jesus faith not wavering and ask not amiss. Only then will he hear our petition and grant us his reply.

Scripture also tells us that God’s ways are perfect and His Word is flawless (Psalm 18:30). “As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.” That means He has already planned the span in which our application will be processed. It was marked before the beginning of time. God is not confused with things in time. He has been there, he is there and he will be there all at the same instance. The answer is on the way as we pray. Know God, know peace Amen 10-22-19 BLL