God's Timeline

What is time?

To humans, time is a constraint. A battle. I for one am NEVER on time. Always late or early, never perfect. Time is something that we can't manage. Don't get me wrong, we try....every day. If only the weekend were 2 days longer....if only a day had 36 hours. If only I had just a few more minutes I would have finished in time. Etc, etc, etc. I will finish school by 2008, I will be married by the age of 30, I will find my career path by the time I hit 23. Whatever it is, humans try to control it. After all, we know what is best. Right?

WRONG. Humans can only see one, tiny glimpse of the whole picture. What seems like a year for us is only a obscure second on the realm of eternity. The only one who truly can grasp what time is is God himself, for he is above time and sees the whole of eternity.

So if this is true, why is it so hard to trust him? I feel like so often we think that God has forgotten about us or is ignoring our desires...all because we don't get what we want in the timeline that we have set for ourselves. But we don't know what God knows. We don't see what God sees.

I have come to discover that waiting for God's timing is a painful process. It is never easy. But, throughout the whole time God is watching you. He is putting your through obstacles to strengthen you. He is putting your through fire to purify you. He is taking you through the hard places to shape you, to teach you. He is showing you a difficult path to point you in the right direction. He is filling you with his presence to embrace you with hope, peace, courage, joy. Every story has a dynamic character...one that never stops learning, growing and changing. Each moment of the story brings that character to new adventures, new desires and a new inner heartsong. God is the author of my story, and I am that main character. Every second of my story is building my character and leading to the ultimate climax--the day of glory at the feet of Jesus. I want to be nothing less than my best when I meet my hero face to face.

To hasten God's timing is to cut short the development of who you are made to be. As I look back, I know that every moment of my life has been used in mighty ways in my heart and in my life. If nothing else, it builds HIS story in MY life. And if we hope and wait in the LORD, all his promises will be fulfilled and all that is meant to play out in our lives will come to completion. Maybe not within our time design, but within the master's hands that tick at just the right hour.