Good morning. This is from verses two and three of chapter 1 of Titus: in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promise long ages ago, but at the proper time manifested. God had promised eternal life many many years before Jesus came. Why didn't He bring it about many years before? Because it wasn't the proper time. Probably only mathematicians can truly appreciate just how impossible it was for everything to come into place at the same time simply by chance. Many righteous people had been looking for the Messiah; but it wasn't the proper time. How does that apply to us? God has promised us things; but they haven't come to pass yet. Why not? There could be many different reasons; but the one we're going to look at: it's not the proper time. When is the proper time according to us? Now! We don't want to wait. We've got to have it now! Sadly sometimes we do get what we want – but it is the wrong thing, or the wrong time. Sometimes what we want is not what we need. Sometimes we are not willing to wait for Him to put things into place. There are even times when He is "screaming at us", now! – but we are not willing to take the plunge. We are still waiting for what we want, what we think it should be. Trust me I know what it's like to not be willing to wait; and I know what it's like to be afraid to pull the trigger. In real estate it's location, location, location. With God it's timing, timing, timing. Everything has to come together at the proper time. Is now the time? Only He can answer that. At the proper time God will bring forth what is best for you – you only have to be patient and look to Him. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

  Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
Read more

Merry Christmas!

   Good morning, and Merry Christmas! We are going to digress and look at the first Christmas. This was something that had been foretold centuries before; and yet people still did not understand what was going to happen. They were thinking that the Messiah was going to come as an adult and was going to re-establish the nation of Israel above all other nations. They were not expecting Him to come as a baby, supposedly born to a carpenter and placed in a manger. Many things had to happen at precisely the right time. You had to have the right person to be His mother and the right person to be His supposed father. You had to have a reason for them to be in Bethlehem on the night He was born – the census. It had to be when shepherds would be in the field near Bethlehem watching their flocks. And just at the right time – an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before the shepherds, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. And the angel said to them...
Read more
  Good morning. So Peter just told them that basically they were responsible for the death of Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, brethren, what shall we do? Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. As we will see much later, it seems that at this point in time they believed that you could not receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit without first being baptized in water. It appears that that idea did not change until chapter 10 after God baptized Cornelius and his family in the Holy Spirit before they were water baptized. Now lest someone think that this was just for the people in the first century Peter then says, for the promise (of the Father - baptism in the Holy Spirit) is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself. That means us! And...
Read more