God's Timing…

You hear about it a lot. How He waits until you basically have given up. Then BAM in your face Jesus says "Seriously, you think your timing is better?" (totally not what He says but that's how He talks to me) Well, I am actually going through that right now. Waiting on the Lord. We are all in some sort of waiting room all the time. Think about it. We are always requesting something from the Lord and then we have to wait. I always think of the song I remember hearing people sing in church. When He's Four Days Late. It talks about the story of Lazarus and how Jesus deliberately waited to come. 

John 11:32-37

32 When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.“Come and see, Lord,” they replied. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

Really read this scripture. Let it saturate your mind. Mary was upset with Jesus because He didn't come when SHE thought He should have. I think Jesus wept because of the lack of faith in His friends. He cried because His friends did not have faith in Him. Faith in their Friend who they had seen/heard do so many miracles. Why on Earth did they do that? Why did they doubt that the Lord wasn't actually late, He was on time? 

I do this to Jesus all the time. I hate to admit it but I do it more than I would care to admit. Doubt His timing. I get so fixated on the problem I lose focus on the One who can fix the problem. I am Mary in this scripture. "Jesus, if You had been here I wouldn't have this problem." We focus so much on our problem and how it's not fixed when we want it that we forget how BIG our God is. He is able to do the impossible. He is able to do the immeasurable. He is able to raise people from the dead. He conquered the grave Himself. Why do we put earthly limitations on Jesus?

I am so guilty of doing this. 

He is bigger than any problem we could ever imagine. The cool part about the story is He shows up and …well just read what the Bible says

John 11:38-44

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39 “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” 40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

After all of that worrying about Jesus not showing up to heal Lazarus, then Lazarus dying, Jesus shows up and performs a miracle. 

In the waiting process that we all seem to be in most of the time, He is using that time to teach us something. He wants our faith to strengthen. He wants us to know that His timing is perfect. He wants us to know that when He is four days late, He is still on time.