Perfect Timing

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. (2 Peter 3:8 NIV)

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens: (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV)

I love the longer hours of sunlight that Daylight Savings Time provides. All winter long I look forward to the days stretching out longer and longer. I crave sunshine and a couple of gloomy days in a row can throw me into a mild depression. But as much as I love DST, I hate the first few weeks of adjustment. It seems that the older I get, the more resistant my "inner clock" is to the change. The switch back to Standard time is somewhat easier, since we have that extra hour overnight, but now that I'm well into my 50's I'm even finding that a struggle to get used to.

So, we have Standard Time in the winter and Daylight Savings Time in the summer... But there is another "time" that is with us all year that most of us tend to ignore. It is "God's Time" or "kairos."

In these days of instant gratification, kairos is a difficult concept for us. If we pray for something and don't have it within a few days, we believe God did not answer our prayer. But kairos is perfect time, and God will not answer our prayer with anything less than perfect timing.

Think of it... Think of the prayers in your life that you have seen answered. Some of them have taken a long time. Sometimes the circumstances had to be just right, or an important lesson had to be learned, or the right person had to come along. It really is all in the timing.

And this is what patience is all about - trusting in kairos... God's time... perfect time. Patience is knowing that God has heard our pray and that it will be answered at just the right time. Patience IS faith.

Father,
Give us faith to wait in the knowledge that you do answer our prayers. Help us to trust you to know the perfect time to answer them. Amen.

Joys: Daylight Savings Time and longer days; lots of new finance committee members at church; unexpected time with Cecelia