God’s Timetable Not Ours: Not Everything That God Does Takes A Long Time - * The Holy Gospel * Home Of The Daily Redemption Bible Blast Bulletins Presented by Zeb of Virginia Beach Church

God’s Timetable Not Ours: Not Everything That God Does Takes A Long Time - * The Holy Gospel * Home Of The Daily Redemption Bible Blast Bulletins Presented by Zeb of Virginia Beach Church

God's timetable is not ours, because He is timeless: He looks down on every war, every battle, and every engagement at once, while we watch one train at a time. Scripture holds both patterns — Abraham waiting decades for Isaac and Joseph thirteen years in a dungeon on one side, and the Red Sea splitting overnight, Jericho's walls falling with a shout, and Pentecost arriving in a whoosh on the other. When God's moment comes, He arrives swiftly, and the movement is undeniable: circumstances, mathematics, and timing all carrying His handprint. Until then, keep your eyes on the prize and your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel — when Jesus takes the wheel, let Him drive. Yes it may seem that everything we pray for, even if ultimately, it comes to pass in God's sweet time. In other words - according to His timetable. Not ours. See? This is easy for God because He is timeless. It is a creation or an illusion that he created our brains in such a way as to perceive but He sees all the wars, all the battles in a single war and every engagement between two opposing soldiers, as an example, at the same moment looking down from above. He doesn't walk around the extensive elaborate train set to take it all in. He looks down on all the tables that it is on an looks in on every square inch at once. So, of course, His thoughts, His ways and His timing are different from ours. Let's look at what Jesus said about when He would return as the perfect example. He said that He would come swiftly. That doesn't mean He is 2000 years late it means that when His time to return comes He will arrive swiftly ("like a thief in the night") and at a time that only the Father knows (as per ancient wedding ceremonies in Nazareth and Galilee and elsewhere where the Jews followed their customs and traditions). Now ask Abraham - the father of faith and he will tell you how long that he and Sarah had to wait for Isaac. The Jews had to endure slavery in Egypt for 400 years. Ask Noah how long he had to work on it with primitive tools to build a boat that was not a yacht and where the curvature of the wood itself was next to impossible. And how about Joseph? The one who is famous for being said that which man (his brothers) meant for evil, God used for good had to be, above all things, patient. He had to wait 13 years as a falsely accused prisoner before suddenly things changed for him. Not only was his accusation false but he was accused by one who wanted him to sin but he was too righteous and so he ended up in jail for 13 years. He spent 20 years separated from his family before his dream would be fulfilled. Ultimately God worked all things out for Joseph's good and he never lost faith. Now let's survey quickly some things in the Bible where God move swiftly and in a timely fashion. Red Sea - split the sea immediately after one night of fierce winds. Babel's languages - instantly confused everyone as they were speaking different languages so as to thwart their plans of becoming like God Jericho's walls - yes 7 days they marched around the city but then on the 7th day they marched around it 7 times and with a shout the walls came a-tumblin' down.