You’ve all heard expressions like, “Time’s a wastin’,” “Time waits for no man,” and “Time flies when you’re having fun.” We love it when our plane arrives on time, when we have time to waste, and when we see a beautiful sunset and time seems to stand still. Time controls our lives, provides order to our days, and sometimes leaves us stressed, when it slips away to quickly.
Time is a big deal to God. Even though, “A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day” (2 Peter 3:8), He still has “a time for every activity under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
Even when it came to the birth of His Son, God had a time set for the prophecies to be fulfilled. Galatians 4:4 tells us, “But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law” and Luke 2:6 says, while Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem, “the time came for her baby to be born.”
Just as God had a time set aside for Jesus to be born, so He has times set to fulfill His plans for your life. Sometimes, when things aren’t going your way, it may seem like God is taking forever to keep His promises, but, if we will just be patient, He will make “everything beautiful for its own time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11.
Just as Mary could not rush Jesus’ birth, so we cannot rush God. He has “a time for every activity under heaven.” Put your trust in Him today and He will cause “everything to work together for the good” – in His time.