Just the right time

Settling back in the chair I write to clear my head. So many thoughts swirling. My husband’s chemo, my son’s broken collarbone and no surgeon available until days later, another hurricane coming, power outages and tons of rain. Ah me…

As I sighed it all out to God, those words: I control the storm, My timing is perfect, nothing is impossible for Me. Do you believe this?

Oh, there have been times in the not-so-distant pass that I would have given a firm ‘No’ in response. How could it be true considering the circumstances? But lessons learned through the Holy Spirit’s constant companionship and prying open my fingers to let go of trying to ‘control’ outcomes have worked the steadfast love of the Lord deep in my heart.

It doesn’t make it easier, but it does usher in a calmness and wisdom once lacking. There’s a Bible verse regarding when God chose to send Jesus to give us freedom from our sinful ways. “When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.” (Romans 5:6 NLT) The words that strike me are…’at just the right time’.

If that’s true of what seems so impossible, that Christ would willingly die to cover over all my wrongs, then all the events that happen in life are surely at…just the right time.

The truth is, we are still ‘utterly helpless’ (in and of ourselves). We can’t hold back a hurricane, nor its destruction. We can’t keep a loved one’s body from disease and broken bones. And we most assuredly, try as we might, can’t make ourselves good in God’s eyes. Oh, such love that covers us with the beauty of His Son and sees only His righteousness when He sees us.

Indeed, it is finished! This world has no permanent hold, the enemy has no lasting impact, because some sweet day: worry will no longer be a word, sickness will have vanished (forever), and storms will be long forgotten.

“Even the winds and the waves obey him!” (Matthew 8:27b NIV) “No longer will you need the sun to shine by day, nor the moon to give its light by night, for the LORD your God will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.” (Isaiah 60:19 NLT)