Time For

Good Thursday morning! We had some rain last night, at least a couple of times, and we are glad for it. We are especially glad it was not accompanied by fearsome winds or hail. The garden is planted. I am a bit later than others, but then I didn't have to cover my plants with blankets and such on those frosty mornings. I like the seeds that instruct me to plant after all danger of frost is past. Around here that means planting in July, which for some things is too late. It was time for planting my garden, now it is time for patience. The flowers told me to expect a bloom in 75 days. What? I want to see lovely flowers like, today! Alright, maybe I can water them for a week or so, but 75 days? That's like more than 2 months. Some of God's works take a bit of time. Impatience, common among us little earthlings, is not actually a virtue. Plants will spring up overnight, but they are tiny things and growth follows God's plan and timing.

Solomon told us that there was a time and season for everything under the sun. We might translate that just a bit and say that in Christ we have a time for everything under the Son. We await our Lord's return with all the patience we can muster, and then we ask the Lord for more patient endurance. We watch as children grow away from the church, and try our best to wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to work on them and bring 'em back to Jesus. Waiting for that 'time for' can be particularly difficult.

Is it time for financial security? Not for many in this nation. Even those that appear to have it right now can be wiped out by one medical disaster. That is, if it isn't time for the new insurance premiums to take away a family's financial security first. We don't have any security in this government, nation, state, or world, but that isn't news to us because it was time for placing our trust in God a long time ago. As we like to say, it's time for us to live out our faith in Christ alone.

Bucky