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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Timing and Trust

Blessed Saturday, May 10, 2008 0

Timing and Trust

When, God, When? : Learning to Trust in God's Timing

When, God, When? : Learning to Trust in God's Timing

I trusted in, relied on, and i am confident in You, O Lord Venkateshwara; I said, You are my God.

My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my foes and those who pursue me and persecute me.

I have learned that trust requires us to accept that some questions will be unanswered and to place our times in God's hands-believing that even though we do not know all the answers, He does. He has a perfect timing for all things in our lives. We all desire and believe for good things to happen in our lives, NOW not later!

Trusting God often requires not knowing how God is going to accomplish what needs to be done and not knowing when He will do it. We always say, "God is never late," but He is generally not early either. Why? Because He uses those opportunities to stretch our faith in Him, and we grow during times of waiting.

The reason is that He is teaching us lessons in trust! Trust is not inherited; it is learned! We learn to trust God by going through various experiences that require trust. By seeing God's faithfulness over and over, we let go of trusting ourselves, and gradually we enter God's rest and place our trust in Him.

Looking at it like this, it is easy to see how timing plays an important part in learning to trust God. If He did everything we asked for immediately, we would never grow and develop. Timing and trust are twins. They work side by side.

Foolish people find fault with it because they are impatient and don't give God the time it takes for His justice to emerge.

How great are Your deeds, O Lord,

Your thoughts are very deep.

The ignorant man does not comprehend them,

Nor does the fool understand them.

When the wicked spring up like grass,

And workers of iniquity flourish,

It is that they may be destroyed forever....

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree,

And grow mighty like a palm tree....

To declare that the Lord is upright,

My Rock in Whom there is no unrighteousness.

This explain the world's apparent evil as in no way compromising God's justice and righteousness. He does it by comparing the wicked to grass, and the righteous to a palm tree. If you plant grass seed and a palm tree seed on the same day, the grass will start to sprout much sooner. At that point, a person who knew nothing about nature might predict that the grass would ultimately grow to be higher and stronger than the palm tree, since it was growing faster. But the experienced observer would know that the head start of the grass was only temporary, that it would wither and die in a few months, while the tree would grow slowly, but would grow to be tall and straight and would last for more than a generation.

So too, this suggests, foolish impatient people see the prosperity of the wicked and the suffering of the upright, and jump to the conclusion that it pays to be wicked. Let them observe the situation over the long run, he notes, and they will see the wicked wither like the grass, and the righteous prosper slowly but surely, like the palm tree.

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