Kairos Timing

“My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you.”  Job 42:5

I know this, Lord.  I’ve talked about it for years.  Your perfect timing for all things.  But today, just like Job, I’ve “seen” it... I’ve seen You.  It has become crystal clear to me that things happen in Your designated time and for Your eternal reasons.  Not before, not after, but in Your perfect time.  I seldom understand why You delay things, yet I know that You do for Your greatest glory.  I don’t understand the “whys”, but I know that I know that I know that You are never early, never late... always at the right time.  It is just hard to wait and impossible to wait apart from You and Your all-sufficient grace.  Lord, grant me a heart to be content in the waiting.  Draw me ever closer to You as I wait.  It’s so hard to wait.  I am broken before You as I wait upon You for my LONG list of things that have not yet come to be but that I know are coming.  Thank You for the promises in Your Word that keep me holding on to You and Your hope while I wait.  I couldn’t go on without them.  I couldn’t go on without You.  I wouldn’t want to.  Forgive my impatience.  May Your will be done in Your kairos time.  

“There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven: 

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot, 

  a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build, 

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance, 

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain, 

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away, 

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak, 

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8