Trusting God’s Timing

h2>Title: Trusting God’s Timing

Scripture: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens” – Ecclesiastes 3:1

Learning to trust God means believing God’s timing is always perfect. God is never late and God is never early. He never fails. Of course we don’t want to hear this, we want it now. An early release of answered prayers sounds great, but it wouldn’t be perfect. Sometimes we get discouraged while waiting. Every day people are dissatisfied with the way their life’s journey is moving and they trying to find ways to rush God.

”Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him…” – Psalms 37:7

The key to understanding God’s timing is trust. Our ability to wait on the Lord is largely dependent to how much we trust Him. When we trust in God with all of our heart, forgoing reliance on our own erroneous understanding of circumstances, we find easy to trust his timing. Here are three reasons why:

[pullquote]Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. – Psalms 139:16[/pullquote]

God is the author of time. Who knows the full functionality of a thing better than its inventor? This reminds me of how we buy a product, it malfunctions and we take it to an unauthorized manufacturer. This is to satisfy our desire for a “quick fix.” However, the repair may only last for a short while until it malfunctions again (sometimes worse than the first time). There are times in our lives that we treat God the same way.
Part of trusting God, is believing He is the Creator of all things; therefore, He is the sole inventor of time. You become an unauthorized manufacturer of time when you to attempt to fix and manage things on your own time. You are not the Creator. Time only exists because God Almighty created it. So you must trust the fact that He knows how to manage it perfectly.
God makes no mistakes. It is impossible for God to fail. God has never made a mistake and He never will. Everything that the Lord does, He does with a purpose. Furthermore, there are some things that God doesn’t do, but for a specific purpose, He permits things to happen.
There will never be a need for God to start over. His mighty hands are flawless. We are the temporary failures when we operate outside of patience, based upon our need to be in control. When you decide to accept and be satisfied with the perfect timing of our unfailing God, you are able to live life’s journey with uninterrupted peace. God always accomplishes what He sets out to do. Trust Him.
God knows more than you. It would be impossible for God to be supreme over all creation if He did not possess the ability to know all things. God has total knowledge. He owns the quality of knowing everything. Trust in God’s omniscience. There are things that God knows about you that you haven’t even discovered about yourself. Oftentimes we feel as if we are ready for certain things and we are not. We don’t know that we are unprepared, but God knows. He knows our strengths and our weakness. God knows that if He releases everything to you right now, you just might lose your mind. There are some blessings that we can’t handle yet.

[pullquote]As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. – Psalms 18:30[/pullquote]To fully trust God, we need to know His Word. God’s divine energy is released in our lives through His inspired Word. When we question God’s timing, it is often because we are looking for guidance or deliverance from a difficult situation. We can rest assured, however, that our heavenly Father knows exactly where we are in our lives at every moment. He either put us there or is allowing us to be there, all for His own perfect purpose.

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