In His Time

So, the Christmas season is over, and we are starting a new year. How exciting this is
for me and my family after the year we just had. Everything changed for us in 2024 and
I mean everything. We moved away from the only place we had ever called home, left
everyone we knew, and started a new chapter of our lives in Colorado with new
amazing people and a new amazing church. Everything is still so exciting and still so
confusing, but we know we are exactly where God wants us at exactly the time God
wants us here. This is something I have been thinking about A LOT lately. God created
everything, knows everything, and has this view of our lives that we can not
comprehend. He knows what we will do tomorrow and how it will affect what we do 5
years from now. I believe that even though I do not understand it, I am still so
interested in understanding God’s timing. I know I will never understand it, but it is
amazing to me. Time is something we are burdened with, not God. Time affects our
decisions and can cause us to change our minds. God does not change His mind
because He is not constrained by what we call time.

Ok, so here is the encouraging part. With all these thoughts on time and trying to
understand it, I was given a gift you may call it… I listened to a sermon recently over
Galatians 4. The verses that the Spirit impressed on me were 4: But when the
fullness of time had come God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5: to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
There it was TIME. It was meant to be a message about the meaning of Christmas and
how God sent His Son so that we could be redeemed, but for me, it was so much more.
It was almost like a weight was lifted off me and the Spirit was doing the lifting. I am so
wrapped up in trying to understand the time that I am missing the point. God is in
control. He decides what will happen when He wants it to happen. It is His plan, and
he knows the exact time to make things happen just like when the fullness of time had
come, He sent Jesus. He knows what His sons and daughters need and when they
need it.

This understanding of God doing with His children what he chooses, when he chooses
was magnified GREATLY this last week. The first week of the new year and God
showed my family again how He can bring dead things to life. My brother-in-law
Johnathan, whom I have known nearly my entire life, is 42 years old and a self-
proclaimed functioning alcoholic, drug addict, and atheist. Without our knowledge, he
accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior last month and was baptized on 1-5-25. This is
something that has been prayed over for years and years. Something, I admit I did not
think would happen and just about gave up on. My wife on the other hand would not
give up on this prayer. She desperately wanted her brother to know Christ and have a
relationship with Him. I encourage you all to never give up on this type of prayer. We
are to pray for the lost and plead with God that He do a mighty work among His people.
That is our job, we must pray! God will do the work and He will do it in His time.