Clocks. They are everywhere. In our homes. In our business. On our bodies. We even celebrate New Year's Eve, counting down the last minutes of the old year at Times Square, New York, until New Year's Eve turns in to a brand new year for us. It is a time of excitement. Of expectation that maybe, just maybe it is magical enough to make us believe that this year is going to be better than last year.
Imagine that you are walking down the streets of heaven. It is so beautiful that you can hardly believe it. You get up to heaven's square. Do you see a time clock there and is it chiming out its time for all people so that they know the time?
On earth, we are governed by clocks. They click away each second of our day, go on all night and as we sleep still their hands move on. We get up, we go to work, we go to appointments and we go to bed by them. Each day and night this ritual goes on. They are never-ending and they keep track of time so that hopefully we won't be late to wherever we have to be at any given time. Sometimes it seems we are in a vicious circle trying not to be late but finding ourselves rushing around to get wherever that may be.
Back to your picture in heaven. Do you see the time clock on the square there? No, you don't. Why? Because time in heaven is not like we know it to be on earth. We won't have to worry about being late to appointments, and concerned about any other thing having to do with time.
Please consider this scripture:
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.[a] Galatians 4:4-5
This scripture has to do with the birth of Jesus Christ. God appointed the time as to when he was going to send Jesus into the world. But really, that scripture can apply to anything God has done or will do. From creating the world to Jesus birth and death, right down to what he has done and will do in our lives. It is all up to him and his timing.
Have any of your prayers gone unanswered? No. They really haven't. God's answer may have been delayed. Or maybe he is saying "No" to them. But they are not being unanswered. Because only God knows what is best for us and how to answer them that are in our best interest. And because he does not go by clocks, his answers may not come right away. They may come months or even years later. Or they may come as soon as we pray them.
You might say that God is off the clock. And really he has never been on one in the first place. At least not in our sense of it.
And so if you are waiting for God to answer your prayers and it doesn't seem like he is moving fast enough or that he isn't answering them at all, take heart. His ways are not our ways. Isahia 58:8 He knows what we need the most and when his timing is right. Just trust him and he will never let you down.
Thanks for your visit Friends. Hope you will be back tomorrow. Until then....Be blessed in Jesus!
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