‘“Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.” Joshua 3:15-16 NIV
“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.’’ (Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT); that may depend a lot on your definition of beautiful? While it usually means God undoing the intractable, opening closed doors and making highways in the seas and all such like.
However, often and very often, a coalition and conflation of the worst possible time, factors and scenarios from human perspective are usually God’s best and beautiful time and moment.
When Jordan was at flood stage, overflowing its banks was God’s time for the Israelites to cross.
God’s time for them to assail and take over the city of Jericho was when the city was “…securely barred because of the Israelites” (Joshua 6:1 NIV).
Earlier, God chose to deliver the same Israelites under the most adversarial pharaoh “ … to whom Joseph meant nothing…” (Exodus 1:8 NIV). To top that, he chose not the holiest of men but Moses, a murderer on the run!
Not sure of how many near-due-date pregnant women would sign up for a 146 km road trip on foot or at best on a donkey from Nazareth to Bethlehem like Mary? Although they thought it was for census, God used that time and moment to fulfill the prophecy of Jesus being born in Bethlehem.
Both instances that Jesus fed the multitudes there weren’t any provisions in sight initially!
When Peter said “let me come to you on water?’, Jesus didn’t say “wait, let the winds die out first.”
“… While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us’’ (Romans 5:8), Jesus chose to die for us, not when we were trying to amend our ways with God but when we were yet sinners, his adversaries.
Do you sense a leading of God but everything seems out of line? Everything around you is screaming ‘this isn’t right’ or ‘this isn’t the right time?” Don’t be too quick to dismiss the leading as not of God, that may just be the sign that it is 100% of God. Inquire further, pray and fast about it, seek wise counsel but once you are very sure and confident it is God; no half measures, dive headlong at the deep end, God will be there to catch you.
‘’He who observes the wind [and waits for all conditions to be favorable] will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.’ (Ecclesiastes 11:4 AMPC)
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This is awesome! It gives lots to consider.
Excited for your next post!
God bless!
Thanks, happy to know it was a blessing. Stay blessed!
This is so profound!
Sometimes what we call waiting for God’s timing is procrastination camouflaged as watching and waiting.
Indeed, He who observes the wind will not sow!
So true, thanks for your input. Blessings.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you, blessings!
Blessings.
“Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.’’ (Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT); that may depend a lot on your definition of beautiful?
Thanks for sharing this, I think our definition of ‘beautiful’ needs to be realigned with the word of God. Jesus healed the demon possessed man of Gerasenes and rid the land of a legion of demons, though one of the resultant effects was the death of a large heard of pigs, that was enough for the people of the land to ask Jesus to leave, they were afraid!
We don’t want to experience any sort of inconvenience on our miracle journey but based on scriptures that is not always the case! Lord, I need your grace!
Agreed. That’s a good angle to it – thanks.
This was very inspiring, thank you!
Blessings.