“Time don’t wait on nobody!” That’s the saying my mom used to repeat often. I used to think it did, my motto was according to the song; “Time is on my side.. yes it is!”. Then I learned the truth. Life is not measured in time; it’s measured in moments. However, if you don’t make the most of your time, you won’t get to capture your moments. As you read through the chronicles of time, you will be amused at the people who took advantage of “moments in time” and made the most significant impact in history.
My mother, for instance, lived fifty years on Earth. During that time, she fulfilled a purpose that only she could. Today, we, her children, family, and those who knew and loved her, remember her mainly in our memories of moments with her in time. While there was much more to her life than the time she lived, we learn through the lives of those who have passed that the only thing that matters is the moments that were redeemed. We remember pictures of others in the moments we had with them. In other words, no moments, no memories.
In the question we’re considering today, Jesus asked his mother, “Woman, what does this have to do with us? My hour has not come.” ~John 2:4.
Jesus paints a beautiful canvas of the power of faith in time that we can peer into like a microscope, bringing it close to expose it for the view of all eternity. Mary, his mother, proves that a heart filled with faith in the right relationship with God can ignite action, reminding us that some good things are also God things, and that His heart can be touched by our needs, wants, and desires. Jesus’s concern often was with the timing of things, for it was usually said that some would have harmed him, but “his time had not yet come!” He demonstrated some level of restraint but was also sensitive to diving timing. Doesn’t this speak volumes even to the predestination of our lives? We often worry about harm coming to us and many other things throughout any given day, but what if we took on this perspective Jesus had, as He knew nothing could harm him or come to him until the proper timing.
He was meticulous with his time, making sure no moment was wasted. As a wedding gift to the newlywed couple, he gave everyone about 20 gallons of wine. He did this because the faith of Mary, his mother, drew the future into the now for them all. To the couple, it felt like he moved a stone, but Mary’s boldness to make this one statement to Jesus that they were out of wine sparked the first miracle performed publicly, and that changed the course of the event. I did have some reservations at first about how she knew to go to him in the first place. How did she know Jesus was capable of doing it? What prompted her boldness to go and give the servants orders to obey whatever Jesus said to them? These things are questions for another day. What matters most is that in this moment, in what seemed like a small sliver of time, disciples who were following him willingly without a sign got to get a glimpse at what he could do, and they believed.
Life throws us curveballs all the time, and the truth is we get to choose how we respond to those occasions when we’re given an opportunity to believe or doubt God’s validity and sovereignty.
Today, I want us to consider whether we wholeheartedly trust God’s timing.
Can we confidently say that we live by faith that overrides fear in uncertain situations?
God wants us to understand that he is not a distant and far-away God who cares nothing about our situations. Instead, we should know he’s present in the midst of all things causing them to work together for our good and his glory.
We are called to trust our King’s timeline, ultimately, not to force our own. What is your “not yet” moment that still requires faith? Remember that He’s made everything perfect in its time.
TheGOoDLifePre-cepts
KeviJ
