"IT is a source of great joy to me to realize that God has taken the time and gone to the trouble to plan each one of my days, even before one of them had come into being. He chose the day I would be born, the family into which I would come, the husband whom I would marry. He even has written on His divine calendar the day of my death and everything that will happen in my life between now and then. What a delight to know that God cares so much for me!
THERE is one small problem, though, I cannot see God's calendar on which all of these appointments are recorded. Consequently, there are times I am impatient - impatient for the salvation of a loved one, impatient for the ending of a trial, impatient for that good thing that God has promised will come to fruition in my life.
LATELY, the Holy Spirit has prompted me to notice what the Scripture has to say about time. IN various books and several versions I have noted these phrases: in due season, in the fullness of time, at the proper time, in due time, in His times, at the appointed time, at the set time of which God had spoken and in His own time. My DESIRE is that the appointments God has set on my calendar be met in His own time. I am learning to say as the psalmist did, "I trust in you, O Lord; I say, 'You are my God.' My times are in your hands" (Psalm 31:14-15).
IT is safest and most rewarding to trust God's methods and to go by His clock." Joyce Carneff.
"All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be (Psalm 139:16)."
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