11/19/25

I was with a friend the other day who was celebrating his 76th. Birthday. As several of us were talking, someone said, 'I never thought I would live to see 50 years.' I remember thinking the same thing. Here I am at 56. If I hadn't seen my 50th birthday I would have missed out on all the precious time (5 years tomorrow) with my granddaughter. I remember when my dad died it really bothered me that my children wouldn't grow up knowing him. They would have very little memory of him.

Time is such a valuable thing on earth. We have so very little of it. In my family history, there was a pattern going back to my grandparents on my dad's side of having your first child at the age of 20. When I turned twenty-one with no children, I felt like it was too late. However, God knew better. He knew the perfect time. I can't imagine two children I could love more than the two I was allowed to be the father of at the perfect time. God's timing is exactly perfect. Yet we are so impatient. Even Jesus had to deal with people in His family wanting God to work on their timetable instead of His.

Jesus' mother told Jesus that the family is out of wine for the wedding. She is saying You need to do something now. Listen to a portion of Jesus' response. John 2:4c NASB95 My hour has not yet come.”

Jesus said, " My hour is not here. I have to wait on God's timing. We consistently go to God saying Lord, we need it now. God's response is often, "My hour has not yet come.” in the perfect timing of God. Jesus had a ministry that provided salvation to all who will believe.

However, this had to happen in God's timing.

Galatians 4:4 NASB95 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law.

We are very impatient, but we must remember that when God's hour has come, God will provide.

The God who created time and exists outside of time, controls time, and knows time. When time is full and His hour is here, then He will provide according to the riches of His grace.

Don't rush and don't drag your feet. Think back to all the times inside of time that at the right time He showed up, showed out, and showed us that in His hour, we are blessed.

I didn't think I would live this long, but now I understand that my hour has not yet come, but when it does, I am ready to be blessed with His presence through His grace for eternity, which has no time. Scripture says, 2 Corinthians 5:8 NASB95 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Are you ready? If not, now is your hour. It has come. You have been impatient, but now it is finally here. Don't watch your hour pass.

Love Bro. Scott