Wait For Him

“The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.” (Psalm 33:10-11).

You can do nothing against the truth, only for it. But sometimes it takes time for the truth to be revealed or to be understood.

Notice in the above Psalm the mention of “for ever” and “all generations”. Never think something isn’t so, only because it isn’t right now.

“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night” (Psalm 90:4)

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8)

Our concept of time is different than the Lord’s. Therefore our need to do, to act upon, or what to believe in, is different than God.

For man, everything is in the future or the past. Our present consists of reaction to what has happened mixed with plans and preparations for what we hope or fear will happen.

For God everything is right now. What God says, He does. There is no difference in doing and saying for God because everything is in the present. But in man’s realm, everything is in another tense, in another sense. Often there is a great disparity for man between words and actions.

Without trying to jump into the deep end of the philosophical pool, Thomas Aquinas, the 13^th century friar, priest and philosopher does shed some light on the subject of time with a more, shall we say, a more Godly perspective of it:

“Time is the measure of movement….Further, whatever is always in its beginning, and always in its end, cannot cease and cannot begin; because what begins is not in its end, and what ceases is not in its beginning. But time always is in its beginning and end, because there is no time except "now" which is the end of the past and the beginning of the future. Therefore time cannot begin or end, and consequently neither can movement, the measure of what is time.”- Thomas Aquinas.

Time, words and act are all right now with God. There is no lull between word and act because God is always true, always righteous and always just. There is no decision to be made, no questions to be answered. God is. God acts with purpose and reason. God is true, righteous and just and what He does is true, righteous and just. Time as we know it is not required for any of it.

For man, time is a mercy and grace period. Time always and affords fallen man the ability and opportunity to discover and interact with God. Without time man and all His generations would be no different than those of the Antediluvian, destined for death and destruction.

Time, although painful, affords man the ability of discovery. Man is able to discover his sin as well as discover our Lord. Time allows for our choice and our salvation. Time is a saving grace, or at least in can be if man exercises the will God gave him and so chooses.

Time is the rate of change. God gives us a life time to change, to repent, to be saved.

“The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.” (Lamentations 3:24-26).

Bill Hitchcock