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I wondered who coined the adage; “God’s Time is the Best”. This adage is completely false though a very popular adage used in time of encouragement. When you say something is “best”, you are comparing it to a minimum of two other things. The use of this adage especially when someone is reaching for something and it is not coming as expected is completely limiting the Almighty God that made the heavens and the earth. First things first, this adage is not in the bible and it has no bible premise or assumption.

 

The bible points us to the fact that God dwells in the heavens (the spiritual realm); the heavens have no time. So all time starts and ends on earth. God created the day and the night which is the primary index for time. If this is true, then all the time is God’s time if we look at it in terms of creation. So which time is God’s and which time is the best? I am sure you would understand why this particular adage makes no sense at all.

 

Now suppose we are looking at it from the lens of humans; this becomes a bit complicated because humans are not the same in terms of psychology, philosophy, demography, geography, etc. The general agreement I can surmise from people’s reaction is that God’s time is when what you are expecting comes to fruition. If this argument is true, what would you call the time that your expectation is not matched: Devil’s time?

 

So God’s time is every time: When you are going through pains, hardship, stress, emotional wreck versus when you are happy, excited, etc. In my early write-up; “The SUN comes down”, I made this same assertion that when the sun comes down, you are not expected to fret or struggle but to relax, observe what you are expected to do next and flow with it. I realize that one of the greatest challenges we have as humans is to change our existing activities especially when the activities appear fruitful.

 

A sudden loss of a plush job; betrayal from the wife you trust; a political law that affects your business negatively are examples of a sudden reversal from a fruitful activity. When this happens to you, you enter the night periods of your life. As I have mentioned earlier, the night is also God’s time but the night is uncomfortable to the flesh. It is this uncomfortable period that people regards as persecution, trials and challenges.

 

As human, Jesus understood this very well and warned us that these periods would definitely manifest in our lives but advised us to be of good cheer. Jesus understood that our whole purpose of existence is discovered during the night time albeit uncomfortable. During his days, Jesus could perceive the night time of his life and prayed to God to avert it. We should be glad that God did not listen to him because we may never enjoy the privilege of “sonship”.

 

Just like Jesus, nobody likes the night time but the night is necessary to the existence of our living. It is during this night that we discover ourselves and our purpose. There have been rumors of a downsizing activity in Zain and some friends have been calling me about investments, businesses, etc. This is definitely the wrong time for all that but I always indulge them by giving them a few; I was surprised at their readiness to start the businesses they were not interested in before. The worst thing to do is to invest or start a business out of desperation; it definitely would not work.

 

The night is the pruning periods of our lives; it’s the time to let go of some habits like anger, impatience, lust, etc that would destroy you in the next level that you are going to. The night prepares you for the new day in your life. This is why when people say God’s time; I wonder what they mean; if the night is necessary for your growth then why don’t you refer that night as God’s time. I am not saying the night is fun or pleasurable, I am saying you need to cooperate with the night to move ahead in life.

 

If you are already in the night period of your life and you are sitting down, waiting for God’s time. I hate to burst your bubbles my friend, you are in God’s time. If you are waiting for the day to dawn, you have to fulfill the prerequisite of the night. God’s time is not like the 24 hours where there is 12 hours day and 12 hours night and all you have to do is linger for 12 hours for the sun to rise; God’s time is about fulfilling the prerequisite of the night to enter the day.

 

In Genesis 8: 20-22, God changed the rule about cursing the ground; “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. This is when God introduced a different set of time called Chairos.

 

This is not the normal chronological time we are used to (24 hours makes a day) but a period of sowing to reap; a period where the day would not come until you have sown during the night and vice versa. If you are waiting, crying and complaining through the night, don’t bother my brother, your day would not come that way. Your day would come by accepting the night for what it is (a period to sow, a period to discover, a period to rest, a period to stick more to God, etc). Understanding this principle would open you to why people pray amidst.

 

If you are very wealthy (like Bill Gates) and your 8-year old son asks you for a Range Rover Sport 2009 model, you would not give him because you love him so much. For the 8-year old boy doing the asking, getting the car is his day but you know that he is not ready to own one so you may tell him to wait till he is 16-years old and you would buy him a better car. He would definitely not be happy with his dad but he decides to wait.

 

If he is now 16 and you realized that he is DUI most of the time; though you promised to give him the car at 16, you would definitely not give him because you love him so much. It’s no longer the promise but love that prevents you from giving him so he will not kill himself or somebody else with the car resulting to jail sentence. But suppose at 14, the boy impressed you so much by being academically sound and very responsible; you may end up giving him the car at that age though he was suppose to wait 2 more years.

 

God is motivated by love not by a chronological time; it is this love that breeds the Chairos. When the Israelites were promised by God to leave Egypt after 400 years, it took God an additional 30 years to get them out. God took the Israelites to a far longer route to Canaan than the 10-day journey because the Israelites were not prepared for war. God pardoned Hezekiah from immediate death despite sending Isaiah to proclaim his immediate death. God pardoned the people of Nineveh from immediate death despite sending Jonah to pronounce it. Jesus had to perform his first recorded miracle earlier than was set.

 

God’s time is infinite; the specificity of it depends on our readiness not on God’s. God loves us and expects us to rise above our present situation and be ready for both the days and nights of our lives. It is however important to prepare for the night because it shall surely come and also important to align ourselves with the night for they shall surely pass away. God’s Time is what he has given us on earth to be fruitful, multiply, dominate and subdue. Hope you are having or had a wonderful Easter holiday? Ciao,,,….