Every Glorious Moment

"He created time to end time."

GOD PREFERS to use time. We want instant and know He can do instant, so we don’t comprehend His use of time. We won’t give it time.

He created time to end time. He took six days to create the earth and all that is in it. He took one day to rest. He then began the plan of salvation within the time He’d created. He is specific. He has promised time will not end until He orders it (Matthew 24:14). No event within time is random from His viewpoint. Thinking of Jesus’ life on earth, for Him to die on a Roman cross meant He would be born in a specific window of time. For Him to be Mary and Joseph’s son, born in Bethlehem, narrowed the window even further. Then mix in the twelve disciples, who were chosen specifically by the Father, and we have a glimpse at the amazing work of God.

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” (Matthew 24:14)

We think God is tapping His toe, trying to decide when something needs to happen. “When will those people get their act together so that I can do this?” This is wrong. He is longsuffering. This is the opposite of “shortsuffering”, my mom always explains. God has infinite patience and is never worried, never frustrated by us. That’s difficult to accept. But if you do, it sets you free of impatience.

“Charity suffereth long, and is kind;” (1 Corinthians 13:4)

Because God has the ending of your situation in His grasp, and it is peaceful within His time. He has made us able to endure (James 5:11). We have His strength and perspective to wait however long He’s designed. Only by giving up do we lose. And even then, He has no condemnation (John 3:17).

What God desires is to take what is meant for evil and to make of it, and of us, something mature, something filled with Him, something incredibly good (Romans 8:28). Our steps there sometimes require sustaining. Just look at Jesus. The plan for His human life included the cross. Now, He did that so we don’t have to. But because He was fully obedient, even unto death, we know we can last through all we face. He is more than enough in us.

There is the key. God is IN us. We are never without Him (Hebrews 13:5), but together in every glorious God-timed moment for eternity.

“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” (Genesis 50:20)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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