To everything created in the universe there is a time and a season allotted to them, a baby spends 9 months in the womb; a butterfly goes through the 4 stages of growth or else it’s destined to crawl and not fly forever.
Concept of passing away, the clock breaks down into pieces. Hand holding analog clock with dispersion effect
However, to the man in a hurry who doesn’t understand divine timing, God is always late in bringing past everything in his life. What does he then do? He takes matters into his hands always.
As limited human beings and a creature of time we cannot grasp God’s perspective of time and why he appears to be late in some of his dealings in our lives. It will only take an act of obedient faith to walk with God and in his divine timing for our lives.
Testifying of his act of timing God says : “At the set time that I appoint
I will judge with equity. When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars.” Psalm 75:2-3.
God is a good God who will not forget any of his creation. Jesus says, that to the good and wicked alike the Father brings sunshine and the rain, Matthew 5:45, [and that is why it appears that the disobedient are prospering but it is God extending his mercies to such and calling them to repentance].
The “slow” timing of God is always a timed- benefit, always in favor of a child of God and Jesus understood this principle. When he was being hurried and harried to go up to Jerusalem to announce himself through his mighty miracles he resisted the push saying “ My time is not yet here; for you any time will do”. John 7:6.
Using the same principle in the death of Lazarus Jesus took his time before arriving at the scene. In John 11:6 we read : “So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days”. A divine delay that ended in God taking the glory before the people as Jesus brought back Lazarus from the dead.
When he eventually arrived at the scene, facing Mathar’s pointed accusation that if he had hurried her brother wouldn’t have died, Jesus calmly replied her saying “ your brother will rise again’. John 11:23.
We must rest in faith believing firmly that when God is ready He will do what needs to be done and not what we want him to do. But many of us like Saul are under pressure today because we took matters into our hands and shunned divine timing. Saul paid the price for this impatience and lost his Kingdom.
There is a price to pay when we refuse to wait. The scriptures provides one of the best examples of the dangers of failing to wait on God. It can be found in 1 Samuel chapter 13.
What do we need to do when it appears that God is slow in his timing and as we wait?
Stay calm, praise him , remind him of your needs and review his mighty interventions in your life. The Bible says like a man waking up suddenly from a slumber God will arise and intervene in your life: at his own appointed time.
Psalm 78:65 puts it in fine poetic style : “Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine’.
Reading
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
