Timing is everything

"Timing is everything" has become a generalized phrase in our society.  It can cover a broad spectrum of events when used in conversations about those events:

• like buying a car at certain times of the month to get the best deal
• like buying or selling a home during the best season to get the best deal
• like coming through with the clutch deal on buying or selling stocks to capitalize on them
• and more.

Timing is everything in our spiritual side of our daily lives as well.  Sometimes we Christians have a very difficult time with that one, don't we?  After all, we get pretty used to trying to control our own lives, and in doing so we tend to forget that it really is God who ought to be in control.  I think we tend to forget because we don't want to wait for His timing....we want it now, and on our terms.  God's timing often clashes with the outcomes that we want and hope for, so thus we just kind of "take over" the task of getting it done....now.  Often the results aren't quite what we perceived are they?

God's timing requires us to be patient and prayerful.  God's timing requires us to be ready for outcomes that we might not agree with or want.  God's timing forces us to relinquish control.  God's timing compels us to have faith.  God's timing makes our trust grow by leaps and bounds.  Timing really is everything isn't it, when only good can come from waiting on God's timing?