Waiting for the Perfect Time

We have all kinds of excuses too:

• When I get married…
• When the kids are older…
• When we have more money…
• When I get another degree…
• Sometimes it’s even, when I feel like it…

And that list is never-ending.  You know when the perfect time is?  Right now.  Today.  Tomorrow is not promised to us, but we have arrived at today, ready to step into our promises from God for this day.  This is the day that the Lord has made.  Today.  We get focused on next week, next month, next year—we for get to look at the beauty and the blessings in today because we are so focused on tomorrow.  Ladies, we have to seek God and be ready to step into His plan for today.  There is a season for everything and God controls the seasons.  We have to learn how to live in the moment, not just plan for tomorrow. 

Ecclesiastes 11:4-6

This concept really applies to our spiritual walk.  If we are waiting for the perfect time and place for our Word time with God, we’ll never open our Bibles.  If we are waiting for the perfect peaceful moment to have uninterrupted time to pray, we’ll find it hard to even utter a word to God.  If we are waiting for the perfect church, we’ll never join one.  If we are waiting for the perfect ministry, we will never serve. 

He who observes the wind will not sow,
And he who regards the clouds will not reap.

As you do not know what is the way of the wind,
Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.

NLT

In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.

Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.
If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.