From The Pastor

Dear Church Family,

 

Why do things happen when they do? Why is one time better than another, or maybe why do things happen at all? Someone has said, “Timing is everything!” If that is so, who’s timing would be best? Mine? Yours? Or perhaps God’s? We probably all, at one time or another, have questioned the timing of some event or situation.

 

In Ecclesiastes, Solomon writes, “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven…He has made everything appropriate in its’ time” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11a). As you read through the Scriptures, you will discover on numerous occasions that in God’s dealing with individuals and people it was stated to be “at the right time.”

 

John 6:16-17, Jesus tells His disciples to get into the boat and cross to the other side. They didn’t question the order; they simply obeyed it. While crossing, a storm came and the disciples were caught on the lake. They thought they were alone, but Mark 6:48 states that Jesus saw His disciples struggling in the storm. Through the night He saw them. Through the storm He saw them. He waited until the right time until the right moment. He waited until He knew it was time to come, and then He came.

 

The Bible says when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, to be the Savior, borne at the right time to be the Deliverer for you and me. His timing is for the sake of us, so that our faith and hope would be in Him. Looking back at the disciples in the storm, why did Jesus wait until the ninth hour? What’s wrong with the fourth or fifth hour? Why does God wait until the money is gone? Why does He wait until the sickness has lingered? Why does He wait until the divorce papers come?

 

I don’t know! I only know His timing is always right. I can only say He will do what is best and good (Luke 18:7 and Romans 8:28). Every situation is intended to bring us closer to Him. To trust Him more. To rely on Him. To be sufficient in Him.

 

What does Jesus do while we are in the storm? He prays for us (Mark 6:46). He prayed for His disciples and He is praying for us today (Hebrews 7:25).

 

Jesus understands that timing is everything. When His hour had come, He willingly laid down His life, endured the cross, despising the shame, for the joy that was set before Him. What a blessing to know that we can entrust ourselves to One who is beyond time and can redeem time in our lives.

 

Pastor Kirk