When The Right Time Came

WHEN THE RIGHT TIME CAME GOD SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD. A WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO HIM. Galatians 4.4.

One of the greatest problems that you and I face in this life is that a lot of things do not happen the way we want them to happen. Neither do they happen when we desperately want them to happen! It would seem as though all our prayers and pleadings to God in whom we trust make no difference. We become greatly distressed and disappointed even with God! When many things like this are repeated in our lives, our faith in God becomes weak or we even lose it!

This makes it necessary for us to get acquainted with God, His plans and purposes and His time schedule. There is a crucial verse in the Bible that explains God’s side of the picture and compares it with ours. God revealed to Israel through the prophet Isaiah, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa 55.8,9).

In the book, ‘The purpose driven life’, Rick Warren tries to explain that 'you should know that God has a purpose for your life'. You must then strive to follow it instead of your own! That was what God was trying to make Israel understand through the words of Isaiah. They kept doing their own things and got into trouble every now and then missing their destiny!

Today’s Bible text tells us about God’s Son Jesus Christ and His life and destiny. It shows us clearly that it was God’s purpose that was working in the life of Jesus Christ. “When the right time came, God sent his Son into the world. A woman gave birth to him, and he came under the control of God's laws”. In one short verse, the apostle Paul tells it all to us. God’s plan for His own Son was to send Him into the world; as the son of a woman – virgin; to be born as an ordinary man, under the law of Moses. God fulfilled it ‘when the right time came!’

Dear child of God, believe that God works in the same way in your life too! You see yourself ‘troubled by the thwarted plans and long-delays’. You attribute it to God’s unconcern or passiveness in responding to your cry. But keep looking at the life of Jesus, God’s own Son, and gain comfort and confidence. The gospel writers often mention, “in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled – it happened in Jesus’ life” (Mt 1.22;2.15 etc.). It simply means that God was working out His purpose in Jesus’ life according to His plan and schedule!

Take heart believer, no matter what happens or does not happen, and nothing seems to move and time rolls on, God is still on His throne! He will remember His own. He will accomplish all His plans in your life at the right time and in His perfect way!

Pray and practise with me: Dear Lord, I believe that You have a plan and purpose for my life, just as You had one for Your Son Jesus Christ. Even as you fulfilled every plan of Yours in His life in the right time, I know You will do so for me too. Amen.