God's Timing

[Christ_empowered]

God's Timing, it has been said, is "always perfect. He's never late, never early, but always on time." So true.

I was praying the other day about all the grace I've been shown and straight up miracles I've received. I'm 29, nearly 30. 9 years ago about this time, I'd just come out of a mental hospital. I'd been electroshocked (involuntarily) and drugged to the gills. My eyes went dead and the pills provided a false sort of glaze. My hair was thin, brittle, and falling out. I was short. I was sickly. I looked 26, on a good day. I had an IQ of maybe 95 (again, on good day).

9 years later, I'm going to school online w/ Liberty University to pursue a worthwhile degree. I apparently have a "high IQ," not that I care all that much. There's a real light in my eyes. I'm taller. I look considerably younger than my age.

I always thought God (or...someone...) would heal me, so I was praying, wondering: why now? Why not sooner, or later, or...? Then it dawned on me: God couldn't heal me sooner. I was a sodomite. If I'd been made attractive and healthy before age 25-26, the gay dudes would have swooped in to ruin God's good work in my life. If I'd been healed before my parents had to get me a good attorney, there's not telling what the shrinks from back in the day (they HATE me) would have done. If I'd been healed before my parents moved up in the world a good bit, I would have been subject to psychiatric/mental health control.

As it is, no one around here respects me. Being low status means you're supposed to "know your place." I don't know if this is particularly true in the South, or if people are just more open about it. Most other places, I'd be in a state mental hospital or group home, subject to all sorts of torment.

So, I went through it for a good 10 years (a lot of this stuff started at 19 years old for me). That chapter of my life--the dark parts, the struggles, the pain, the ridicule--is over. No, people--men in particular--don't "respect" me, but do I care? People around here have been tormenting me for a decade. I'm considered "uppity" ("who does he think he is?!?!," that kinda thing), I'm considered a "loser," I'm considered "schizophrenic," so on and so forth.

God came through for me! As I was praying recently, it finally dawned on me: its not a wonder that I went through it, its a wonder that I've been healed, saved, and set free. We live in a fallen world, and people "go through things," especially despised poor people.

 

[Blain]

My friend It is my personal belief there are no accidents or coincidences, that everything happens for Gods glory and for our good especailly the bad things. You are seen as the bottem of the barrel the lowest of the low the least of anyone so that you would become in the ranks of the greatest in the kigndom of God.
I myself have had a terrible life I have been through abuse sexual abuse being drugged starved had to go through cancer I have many medical issues i have brain damage from both my parents and Cancer i cant follow simple commands can hardly remember to even take my medicine I cant drive and am trapped in my own house because I cant go anywhere and I am seen as an incompitent child who cant do hardly anything.

So you see like you I am very weak in the ways of the world but you know what else? Like you it was so that for every thing I am weak in this world I would be strong in his. Trust me God knew what he was doing when he put us through all of that in fact it was actually a blessing

 

[His_nee (Jeff)]

God's Timing, ........

"God's Timing ......" .... God's Timing LIGHT .... (for tuning us)

 

[ironmonk]

God might make you wait, but you don't have to.

 

[AirDancer]

God's timing is always perfect. We humans are both imperfect and impatient (at times). Sometimes, it would be so lovely to have a black & white hard copy, outlining what's going to happen when, where, how and with whom. But thankfully, He knows so much better than I do that such a hard copy would not work well with us; hence, no hard copy.

Through faith, however, we know He loves us and has a specific plan for each of us. This makes momentary (and even lengthier) waits all the more worthwhile!

 

[Deborah13]

Christ_empowered

Hey CE, just wondering how is school going. I think you just started on the 12th but still are you enjoying it?
Be Blessed

 

[Christ_empowered]

down to 2 classes this subterm, 2 next sub-term. doing pretty good, have a lot of reading to do (thank God...keeps me busy). Thanks for asking

 

[Danus]

Here is something that always reminds me of Gods timing, and time in general. This is a little pond I built in my patio garden.

The funny thing about this pond, I didn't want to build it. Years ago my wife insisted on having a pond. I made several attempts. I bought a pond kit with a liner and pumps. I dug it out. I set it all up, and it failed. Water got under it and it floated up. I redid it. Bought some expensive fish. They died. Several attempts later, after more careful study, and better planing, I finally got it right.

I bought a solid insert pond, rocks, stone, the right pumps. I brought in dirt and mulch. I built a little water fall, and some little plants. I bought some fish. Just some little gold fish for .13 cents apiece. (tinny) I put it all together and wha-la! a pond. That was about 6 years ago. It wasn't much to look at then, but over time it changed.

The fish, I have 7 of them, grew. You can't see them very well from the photo, but they are as big as my hand. Most of the plants you see in the picture where just little sprigs. I grew those lilly pads from seeds.

Over time the pond changed. It wasn't anything I did, but something set in motion to be what it is by Gods own hand. This pond, these plants, the fish, they change. In the winter the plants are not there, but every spring they reappear, they spread, they get bigger.

We often think of time in some linear way; a past, a present and a future, but I don't see it like that anymore. Looking at this pond reminds me of how things simply change. All these plants where there in the winter but they changed in the spring. This piece of ground was destined to be what it is in this picture and it simply changed over time. It will change again. Today is yesterdays future and tomorrows past. This pond existed before I took this picture. It existed before I decided to put it there. We just couldn't see it, but something told me what it might be, and that same something shows me what it is, and what it will be, all in it's own perfect time, in due time.

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[Christ_empowered]

Insightful and spot on as per usual, Danus.