11/13/2023 0 Comments God perfect timing verseOur conversation began from her simple hello and went on till midnight, talking about everything from my love of comic books to her relationship with her boyfriend (and how they met. As I passed by the theatre doors, who else do I meet greeting the guests with a smile and hello? None other than Collean. Unbeknownst to me, God was actually ordaining a moment for me to make a new friend, as well as, be a blessing to a fellow Christian. ![]() But the evening before my last two days on the ship, I wandered the decks alone again, just thinking that I would make one last round around the ship before I headed off to bed for an early morning tour. I had seen her multiple times previous our first conversation, but never had the courage or the right opportunity to talk to her (I’m an unusually shy person.). My new friend’s name is Collean, and she is actually one of the singers/dancers on the ship. But surprisingly, God opened up another opportunity to befriend someone else that I would have never expected to be friends with instead – a person on the crew. I had my sights on someone, but the opportunity just never came up where I could really have a good conversation with that person, so I had started to give up, thinking that this may just amount to another cruise where I come home without a new friend. Once again, I spent the first half of the cruise, constantly looking for a person to befriend. And the truth is it has never happened but this time was different. I just spend my time walking the decks of the ship alone (when my parents have gone to sleep), wishing, hoping, and praying that I would be able to make a friend – a friend that would hopefully stick around for life. Usually when I go on a cruise with my family, I don’t make any friends. The first experience happened about four weeks ago on my vacation. I would just like to share with you two experiences that have recently happened in my life that have taught me to trust in God’s timing. If they had just waited for God’s timing, things would have worked out without a hitch even though the promise may have been fulfilled “later” than expected (Isaac was born when Abraham was almost 100 and Sarah in her 90s, so it definitely took some time.). This choice to ignore God’s timing and follow their own led to the birth of Ishmael and actually a lot of trouble for the Israelites (the descendants of Isaac) later on. So instead of waiting for His timing, Sarah gave Abraham her servant Hagar as a wife to have children through her. But as Abraham was in his eighties and Sarah her senior years, they began to worry if God’s promise would ever be fulfilled. God had promised to give him a son from whom Abraham would become the father of many nations. Just look at the story of Abraham, an old man with no children. But the thing is when we move ahead of God’s timing, we tend to muddle everything up, ending up with a larger mess in our hands than we would have had if we had just waited. Because God’s timing tends to be slower than we would like, often enough we try to put matters into our own hands and fulfill His promises for us right away. ![]() It is as if His promises take so much longer to come to fruition, than it takes the minute hand to hit 5:00PM on a Friday to start the weekend (Don’t be afraid to admit it. ![]() I almost always feel like it moves at a much slower pace than I would like. I must admit that one of the hardest things for me to do personally is to wait on God’s timing. If it seems slow, wait for it it will surely come it will not delay.” Habakkuk 2:3 – “For still the vision awaits its appointed time it hastens to the end – it will not lie.
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