When God Says It Is Time

Today we made a trek to Waffle House for breakfast. My first visit in years. It was good. Then we attended the VBS program for Mason and Carter. I still needed a good afternoon nap before we headed back to the pool this evening.

I am managing well with my crutches and notice greater strength when I walk in the pool. Tomorrow Mason has two baseball games with the first at 8 a.m.  No sleeping in  on Saturday!

BIBLE VERSE FOR TODAY…  “…The angel said, “There will be no more delay!”  (Revelation 10:6)

“The voice said to the sixth angel, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!” The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all humanity.” (Revelation 9:14, 15 GNB)

I find it challenging at times to understand the concept of a God who is above time, yet works within the time of human existence. Our life is marked by time. Time we live on the earth. The seasons and stages of life. The hours in a day; and the list goes on.

In Revelation 6:10, we read the question of those who had laid down their lives for Christ, They shouted in a loud voice, “….How long will it be until you judge the people on earth and punish them for killing us?” (Revelation 6:10 GNB) It seems in Revelation 10, they get their answer. “There will be no more delay…”

Then I notice the time context of the four angels released from the River Euphrates.  They had been kept ready….”for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year.” What is clear is, God is not just “making events up” as time goes on.

This should gives us a degree of comfort and reassurance about our lives and the events of the world. Psalm 31:5 simply begins, “My times are in your hands….”  Most people are familiar with Ecclesiastes 3:1 “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.”  I take special note of the words, “under heaven.” Because in heaven there are not clocks, there is no time.

In light of this, what is our response? We are called to, “..number our days, to gain a heart of wisdom.” (Prov. 90:12) We are called to “…redeem the time because the days are evil.”  (Eph. 5:16) We are to be quick to respond to God’s call to Himself and the work of His kingdom… “Behold…now is the day of salvation….” (2 Cor. 6:2)  Jesus said, “don’t say there is four more months to the harvest, lift up your eyes and see the fields white unto harvest.” ( John 4:35)

This life is about time. We are to use it wisely and keep it in perspective as we anticipate the Lord’s working out His divine plan of redemption and brings us to a place where “trips around the sun” are no longer needed, because, “There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.” (Rev. 22:5) May The Lord hasten that day….in His time!