Is it true that there is a right timing for every thing?





"My times are in your hands;
    deliver me from the hands of my enemies,
    from those who pursue me."
Psalm 31:15


Whenever something doesn´t go the way we wished, we try to comfort ourselves or others around us by quoting Ecc 3:1 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven". While that saying is proper and true, it shouldn´t be an excuse for us for being timid before God and his promises, knowing that He actually owns times and seasons! 

 Jesus replied, 
“My hour has not yet come."
John 2:4

The bible tells us about the first miracle performed by Jesus. At that occasion, his mom told him that they had ran out of wine; Jesus replied that his hour had not come yet. Curiously, it seems that Jesus actually changed his mind 3 verses later:

Jesus said to the servants, 
“Fill the jars with water”
John 2:7

Jesus doesn´t depend on the RIGHT TIME or SEASON to act! He is moved by love and compassion! No wonder he performed most of the miracles on a Saturday - a day when it was -not only- not expected to do miracles, but prohibited to do so!

 "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, 
and troubled the water"
John 5:4

There was a man by the pool of Bethesda who was ill for 38 years, and he couldn´t get his miracle for there was no one to get him into the pool when the angel moved the water (for whosoever first got into the pool after the troubling of the water was made whole of whatsoever disease he had). That man didn´t know that there was no right timing to be the target of God´s goodness!!! Jesus simply showed us and lavished his goodness on him!

Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life.
Psalm 23:6

God is willing to unleash his goodness and kindness in our lives on a daily basis! Minute after minute we can experience it! It is not only when we are at church or we behave well! It is available even NOW for whoever believes that we belong to a good Father!



He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?                                              
                                         Romans 8:32







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