SLOW DOWN AND TRUST
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
It was the last morning of turkey season and I took my friend, Doug out to try to get him a gobbler. At first light a turkey gobbled right behind us from his roost high above the forest floor. That gobbler flew down and strutted around the field for several hours with two other gobblers for a few hours. They chased 3 hens around and displayed for all they were worth. I explained to my friend that they would eventually walk back past the place we were sitting.
After the long sit, and while be attacked by countless mosquitos, we decided to give it up. A few hours later my son Nick took my friend back out. When they got back to where we had hunted, there was a big gobbler bedded down right where we had set in the morning. If we had faithfully waited in the place... Doug would have harvested a big gobbler. Doug didn't get a gobbler before season ended that evening... however he didn't need to get a bird to be successful and he understood that our plans, desires and timing aren't always right. We can always count on the fact that God's plan and timing is always perfect.
If we look at great heroes of the Bible we see men and women that trusted their own desires and timing over God's. It seems that most at one time or another moved ot ahead of God and His timing or didn't go when He said "Go". When they dis that and when we do it today we put ourselves in the place of God and use our faulty judgment instead of His perfect judgment.
The word that is frequently used to describe God's timing is the Greek word Kairos. Kairos, literally means, "opportune time" as opposed to Chronos, which means "chronological time" or man's time. Those that wrote the New Testament use the term Kairos to describe the satisfaction or culmination of God's plan. I wanted that buck to come out in my time, but it wasn't to be that day.
I can't speak for women... but I know as men we want what we want and we want it now (or is it just me?). I have an idea and most often rush right in and begin moving on it. But God's timing is not my timing and I need to learn to discern between the two. We can see yesterday and this moment... God sees all eternity at once and He sees the plans He has for me and knows what is best.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope
I want to be a Noah, who trusted God for 100 years as he labored and not an Abraham, who jumped head of God and His promises, causing strife for 1,000s of years.
God give us the patience and faith to wait on Your perfect plan, in your perfect timing.
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