My husband noted, “God has lined everything up just right. It’s almost as if I thought nothing was happening, but God was doing everything.”
We continued to talk. He had no idea, at the time, he was meeting just the right people to help him in his time of need. He had no idea that chance encounters in a Starbucks, random introductions by friends, and shifting situations behind the scenes, would produce SO much. But, at the right time, when all things were laid out just so, everything changed.
While my husband had no idea what God was orchestrating, God was orchestrating it all. He was orchestrating what could not be seen.
God is always working. God’s timing is perfect. His plan is perfection.
Just yesterday, I had planned to go take a walk by the ocean. After I dropped the kids off at school I was going to make the drive. There was only one problem, I remembered I had to run back to the house to tackle something.
Ugh. Now, I can’t go. Frustrated, I headed home. I tackled what I needed to. Then, I met with God.
During that time, with God, some lightbulbs went off. I realized I so often don’t expect God’s great; I expect average or a blah-meeting. While God is a good dad, I expect him to give me a bit and then turn away to do other things.
I decided I wanted to see His goodness. I wanted to know His abundant heart.
After praying, I felt prompted to take that walk with Him at the beach. I am so glad I did. There, orange butterflies came flying in off the ocean. There, dolphins were jumping all around me. There, I established: God is brilliantly beautiful. God is giving. God orchestrates perfect timing.
What if I didn’t make that layover at my house? I probably would have missed the show of his wonder he had planned to set off at just that hour when I was at the beach. I probably would have gotten there hours earlier.
But, God knew. God always knows. He knows what He is lining up for you. He knows what he is doing behind the scenes. He knows the details he is currently working out. . . that will come to fruition at just the right time. You are not lost to Him. You are not outside of His working plan. There is a time for beauty and He is working on it.
“God has made everything beautiful for its own time. (Ecclesiastes. 3:11).”
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I’m so thankful He orchestrates such PERFECT timing, we serve an AWESOME God!
Amen! God’s timing is always perfect. If only I could always rest in that and stay out of his way. Isn’t it fun to go back and see just how perfect his timing was?
Been crying a lot today. Like Nehemiah, there’s a burden on my heart that I know GOD put there. It’s been years, but the last two have been excruciating. I happened upon this tweet while I was in the car, but I couldn’t save it. An hour later, checking Twitter, it popped up again, RIGHT after I just got up off my knees from crying my heart out. He knows the pain and why I cry. I know He is working this all out because I know that I delight myself in the LORD every day all day, and the desire in my heart, He gave me. (Psalm 37:4) . It doesn’t make the pain less, but I have hope, I trust in my GOD even though I cannot see what He’s doing, when it’s coming, or how. (Habakkuk 3:17)
God deserves a standing ovation, He does orchestrate well, very well.