Have you checked your timing?

How many times have you heard that “timing is everything”?  And of course you know how your car’s ignition timing can affect its performance.  So have you thought lately about God’s timing, and how everything we do, and no matter how much we try to plan, that God’s timing overrules all else?  Here are a couple examples of what I mean:

I was watching the news and they were reporting on how a truck smashed through a house in Lexington, KY, on May 2^nd.  Thankfully, the owner wasn’t home; he was at the hospital receiving a regular check up following his kidney donation operation.  Tell me that wasn’t God putting him in a safe place, especially after donating an organ that he was still using!  The truck driver was also uninjured.  The house, on the other hand, was in bad shape.

My other example has to do with my wife’s maternal great aunt.  She had been suffering with cancer and we knew her earthly suffering would end at any moment.  We were looking over the booked solid calendar at home and trying to figure out all of the possible scenarios and what we would have to rearrange depending on when her services would be.  Then we realized that we needed to just stop what we were doing and be a servant to God’s timing. 

A few days later we received a call that she had stopped breathing.  This call came during a Creative Memories scrapbooking gathering my wife was having, and my wife’s mom happened to be at our house.  I drove mom over to her aunt’s house to be with her extended family, and her cousin reported that she had stopped breathing at 7:40. 

Mom’s other cousin, who is a nurse, came there and, just to confirm, checked for a pulse, only to state that she thought she felt a faint pulse.  When the hospice nurse arrived she confirmed the faint pulse and assured us that it would stop at any time; but it must not have been God’s time just yet.  Her heart finally stopped at 8:56, which must have been when God was ready for her.  What else could explain the timing, except it being God’s timing? 

So what is the point of all of this?  Always be prepared to submit your plans to God’s timing, as our creator and redeemer he knows what is best for us.

Dave Kanofsky