Timing

Good morning. It seems to me that the Lord has all the right timing. I know what some of you are saying right now - time out, I want to get through this thing faster than the Lord is taking me; or, I am ready for a new thing, yet God still has me in an old thing. I understand those sentiments, as a lot of the times I feel the same way. Yet, I still feel the Lord has all the right timing. We know that His timing is perfect, and thankfully some of the times we are able to see it once we come out the back side of something. However, you may be in something right now where not only do you not see His timing, you may be having a hard time seeing Him.

The Lord has really been teaching me lately about His grace, relationship with Him, and being prepared for the everyday all out warfare of this Christian life. This morning, while reading a little daily devotional from John Eldridge, His timing showed up again. Here is the devotional:

"It was to the most religious people of his time that Jesus spoke his strongest warnings about a loss of heart.

It is tragic for any person to lose touch with the life of their heart but especially so for those of us who once heard the call in our heart and recognized it as the voice of Jesus of Nazareth. We may remember him inviting us to a life of beauty, intimacy, and adventure that we thought was lost. For others of us, when he called, it felt for the first time in our lives as if our heart had finally found a home. We responded in faith, in hope, and in love and began the journey we call the Christian life. Each day seemed a new adventure as we rediscovered the world with God by our side.

But for many of us, the waves of first love ebbed away in the whirlwind of Christian service and activity, and we began to lose the Romance. Our faith began to feel more like a series of problems that needed to be solved or principles that had to be mastered before we could finally enter into the abundant life promised us by Christ. We moved our spiritual life into the outer world of activity, and internally we drifted. We sensed that something was wrong, and we perhaps tried to fix it—by tinkering with our outer life. We tried the latest spiritual fad, or a new church, or simply redoubled our commitment to make faith work. Still, we found ourselves weary, jaded, or simply bored. Others of us immersed ourselves in busyness without really asking where all the activity was headed. At one point in my own spiritual pilgrimage, I stopped to ask myself this question: “What is it that I am supposed to be doing to live the spiritual life in any way that is both truthful and passionately alive?” "

It is all about the passion and relationship we have with Jesus. Tie this in with what I wrote yesterday about needing to spend time with Him in order to survive - God shows His timing again! It is not about what church you go to, what programs you are in, how much you give to the church, or how often you go to church. No, it is all about Him. Loving Him with all of me and not losing heart when things don't seem to be going my way. I have to believe, that as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, He loves me and He will never leave me or forsake me no matter what I am walking through right now. It is the best of any relationship I could ever hope to have.