God's Plans and Timing

God's timing is always perfect for us. Unfortunately, so many of us are too anxious and too self-centered to realize that He sees the entire picture and knows every possible outcome from every possible action. 

We, on the other hand, just have our narrow, imperfect view of things filtered through our illogical, irrational, emotional brains. We simply don't want to trust His timing.

When you truly absorb the above truths, you appreciate God's longsuffering nature with us. 

When we get to eternity and we are able to look back at our lives we will see that when we let God handle it, great things happened that we were never aware of. However, when we tried to "help" God by doing things by ourselves on our timetable we actually made things worse. 

For Biblical references of this you just have to look at Abraham and Sarah. They thought it was a great idea to have Abraham have relations with Sarah's handmaiden, Hagar, in order to "help" God get them an heir faster. 

Poor Ishmael didn't ask for his lot in life - it was Abraham and Sarah's impatience with the promises of God. However, to this day we are paying for the mistake Abraham and Sarah made with the animosity between the Arabs and the Israelis. 

God came along later and told Abraham and Sarah that they would indeed have a child (Isaac) and it would be just as God had foretold. He might have done this earlier if Abraham and Sarah hadn't gotten in the way. 

Jesus said that "Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 18:18) We bear responsibility for doing things according to God's plan. 

"But how can we know His plans," you say. "He's God and we're not!"

Well, God answers that. Hint: it's a heart issue!

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:11-13)




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