An Appointed Time

     When you were a child do you remember being told by your parents about a place they were taking you and the excitement that filled your heart? Do you remember thinking that they were taking you there at the time they told you and you hurried to get yourself dressed only to realize they didn’t mean right that minute?

     As a child it can be difficult to grasp the concept of going somewhere tomorrow or next week rather than today. Even as adults who walk with God as His children we can find ourselves in the exact same place. This is where I have found myself. God has spoken to me about some places He is taking me, but just like a child I too find it difficult sometimes to wait thinking the fact that He has told me means we are going right then, only to find I was ahead of schedule.

     I have found timing is everything when it comes to walking with the Lord. Maybe you're not like me but I like to get to where I am going and get there fast, but as I have learned and the hard way at that, Jesus is not in a hurry. I want to go by plane or car, it seems He, on the other hand, likes to walk everywhere He goes.

     Sometimes I feel like the child in the back seat constantly asking, “are we there yet”, and it isn’t even time to leave. Part of me has sensed I was getting ahead of God, but being afraid of not being a good steward of what He has given me I believe has caused me to move ahead too fast. The operative word there is ‘afraid’ God does not use fear to get us to do anything, the devil does. I thought I knew that but  I forgot because I am just so exited about where He is taking me. I have been waiting a very long time for Him to tell me where we are going and now that He has given me some very good hints, I am ready to get there yesterday, but He knows exactly when we need to leave and how fast we need to travel because He has an appointed time for our arrival.

     You know you can’t even show up for a doctor’s appointment until it’s your time and just as God had an ‘appointed time’ for the birth of Jesus, so He has an ‘appointed time’ for whatever it is He desires to birth through us from the spirit, and it is essential the delivery comes in His time not ours, so that whatever we bring forth will have all that is necessary to sustain its life.