Time, Time Time

I have been thinking about time, and timing over the past week. It almost sounds cliche now to say, "it all happens in God's timing". But, that statement is so true. It does all happen in God's timing, we certainly are not in control of something so important. Why do things happen when they happen? Why do things not happen when we desire them to happen? Or, why do things happen when we are not expecting them to happen? Most everyone knows Ecclesiastes 3...."To everthing there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose 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...." The most known verses of this chapter are verses 1-8. But, last week as I read this chapter I found some new precious nuggets of scripture I had never noticed before. "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live. And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor- it is the gift of God. I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is]." (Ecclesiastes 3:11-14, Amplified version)
I love that! What and when God does what He does, just is! There is no philosophical theory, it just is! And we need to accept it, so that we can worship and understand Him as our God. Tough stuff to swallow, I know! It proves we have NO control. That is the beuaty of it, especially for those of us that are type A....we just have to accept and trust and LET GO!!! Wow! When you get to the place when you can do this, it is such a relief, to let the reigns of control go and to just allow things to happen in the timing of God. He knows His plan for you, and He even knows the outcome so just let Him do His job!