Time to Listen

 

Time to Listen

How many times have you heard someone say, “Just give me a little more time and I will stop and pray?” Just a little more time and I’ll be finished. Time is a finicky creation that knows no speed, boundaries, or description. Much like the wind it comes and goes without notice. There is a “time” everlasting but not in the age of humans. We tend to categorize our days, months, and lives into segments of planned achievements. Too often this is done without consulting God or even thinking that tomorrow may never come. God made time and segmented it into life for each of us differently. He had a plan and reason: “Ecclesiastes 3:2 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” (2 Timothy 3) Tells the signs and purpose of the end times. Satan would distract our thinking of mortality. Jesus came to unwrap the confusion generated around lives by Satan. He taught a few who passed it on to others down through the ages. Ephesians 5:8 “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:” Ephesians 1:7 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

Peter, thinking as a jew believed that under the law, there were certain measurements for all things. Matthew 18:21 “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.”

Jesus responded to questions concerning the end times but made it clear that we need to understand God is in control of all things. It is not our concern when, where and why God does what he does. He will when He will. He is the I Am that I Am! (Ephesians 1:10) “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 1 Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;” Acts 1:7 “And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.” (Acts 3:19) “Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Know God, know peace. 05/13/21 BLL