Godex

What does it mean to have God’s perspective on time? A  day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day in God’s sight. Can I operate in God’s timing? Can I wait as He does for people to turn to Him? Can I exude the same kind of patient passion that causes him to listen for the squeak of door of a heart that is turning towards Him? It is hard because I recognize that God has the advantage doesn’t He? He knows the end from the beginning, and He knows the hearts that ultimately are His.  But, He also knows those that will be separated from His all eternity. So how does He live  and love in the moment with the future prodigal and traitor? How does He enjoy the moment with me when my betrayal is just around the corner?

If my times and seasons are in His hands (Psalm 31:15), why do I struggle so?  I long to walk like my Daddy God, never in a head-long rush, totally at ease and patient, trusting the end is in sight, but, I dislike going around the mountain again and again. Waiting for someone to grow or change- that person can even be me.  Genesis 1:14  records  how God made seasons from the beginning:

"And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years"

 What I need is God’s perspective, but how do I get it? How can a transient ephemeral being act like a non-time dimensional ever-present, ever-existing God?

 I don’t know, but I need His sense of timing. I don’t need a Rolex, I need a Godex watch that helps me wait in seasons, repeat do-overs with grace, and a hand-out a constant supply of gracious patience to others. God help me. I want to be like the men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do--200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command" (1 Chronicles 12:32).
 

A Fellow-Time Traveler,
MJ

 You and I both know that "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing"  (Ecclesiastes 3:1-4).

May  He "who changes times and seasons [,who] removes kings and sets up kings[, who] gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding" (Daniel 1:12) bless you with all these things and more.