GOD'S GOOD TIMING

December 1

Psalms 42:9-10 I will say unto God my rock, “Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, “Where is thy God?

There are times in our lives when we feel that God is absent. We know He looks at us, that He sees our desperate plight, but it seems to us that He does not answer.  We at times feel like Abraham. We hold the Word of the blessed promise, while we see the years go by and the feel the decaying of our bodies. It may even be that after God grants us the long expected prize, in what seems total disregard for our wasted and confused feelings, He asks for it back. On top of it all, enemies, and even ‘bad blood’ jealous relatives who wish our downfall, exacerbate the situation by questioning the avail of our hopes.  When God seems to be so slow at vindicating Himself, we take the brunt of the derision of the shortsighted carnal-minded earthlings.  

During such times, the foolish and puny words of unbelieving humans seem as swords in our soul. We dare not take away God’s punch line reserved for the end of the story by trying in our own works to project His vindication; by justifying Him before others, as if He needed our help to defend His ways and prove His Wisdom to anyone.  

When Jesus was asked to go to the bedside of His bosom friend Lazarus, though He knew His friend was dying, He purposely waited two days before arriving (John 11:6,7). When He arrived, Lazarus’ sister couldn’t help but remarked to Jesus that if He had been present, maybe her brother would still be alive.  Jesus did so because even though people didn’t know it, a certain day was decreed for Him to perform the miracle of resurrecting Lazarus (John 11:43,44).

God waited for Abraham and Sarah’s body to be decayed to fulfill Hos promise to them of a son; so Jesus waited for Lazarus to be dead to raise him up again.  God comes at the last minute, even after  all of man’s attempts to save Himself have shown themselves of no avail. He does so, in order to do a miracle in the sight of us all and teach us to put our trust in Him.

In the very thing that we wait for; the start of a long awaited project, the salvation of a friend, a desperate change in a n excruciating situation; let us not fret. God will not be a second too late; He will work; He will fulfill His promises to us in a way, in the only way that man will look at it and render Him praises mixed with shame for their unbelief.

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.