Timing Is Everything
With its wings flapping up and down, it was difficult to get
just the right moment captured. If I snapped the picture too early, the wings
would not be spread and if I hit the button too late, the wings would already
be closing. So I found that if I clicked the button as the wings were just beginning
to open the full display of the colorful wing was caught on the camera.
It’s the same in business—if you’re too early people may not
understand, but if you are too late, people have already made other choices. Even
relationships may have similar results. A move made too quickly could scare
someone off, but if you wait too long the window of opportunity may be closed.
We tend to think that our timing is the right timing, so
when things don’t happen according to our time frame, we get upset. Often that
frustration is aimed at God. We want Him to act sooner, provide when we want
it, or to give us more time.
We think we know best, but what we don’t see is that God is hard
at work behind the scenes getting everything to line up in a way that is
perfect for everyone. It may be that He may desire to do a work in us, to teach
us or mold us. Or it may be that for our prayer to be answered, He must also
make the pieces line up for someone else.
No matter how things may look in our minds, God is always
perfectly on time.
Praise God that He knows better than me.
Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your
thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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