In His Time

Happy Monday! I hope it is beginning to look and feel like spring where you are. Maybe you would like to rush it?

I have two potted geraniums on my back patio, full of buds, with a little of the bright red peeking through. My tendency is to go help those buds open so I can really enjoy the blooms, but do you know what? I would ruin the end result with my impatience.

Is that not like life? I am trained to want instant gratification, but how can faith or character grow that way? In Ecclesiastes 3, God tells us through wise Solomon that, To every thing there is a season,… In verse 11, he says, He hath made every thing beautiful in his time:… Notice it does not say “my time.”

Some of my prayers of supplication have been prayed for a long time it seems to me. Like a little child, I say, “I want it now!” Then, I hear from Psalm 46:10 to Be still, and know that I am God: —Who is a very present help. Right now He is working, but He will not force the bud to open before time. Isaiah 30:18a says, And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you,… The last of that verse says, …blessed are all they that wait for him.

Does that thing you so want seem too long in coming? Has He ever failed to come through for you? Lamentations 3:25 says, The Lord is good unto them that wait for him,… Then in verse 26, it says we are to …hope and quietly wait… for the Lord.

The chorus to a song I used to sing goes like this:

“In His time, in His time,

He makes all things beautiful in His time.

Lord, please show me every day

As You’re teaching me Your way

That You do just what You say

In Your time.”

His time is best. The end result can be glorious if we will just …hope and quietly wait….


by Beverly Hyles

From the Mondays with Beverly blog. Reprinted with permission.

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